Term Limits
Term limits began as a republican reaction to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four elections as president of the United States. ... Intensely contested, and heavily incentive laden, term limits in American politics are debated and discussed frequently among both lawmakers and the constituents they represent. As more and more states adopt term limit for their legislators, members of congress regularly propose the initiative of term limits for representatives and senators in the United States congress. Implications of term limits vary, and have supporters from both sides of the argument. The powers of highly influential special interest groups are at stake, as are the implications of a national movement to implement term limits. ... Though talked about in the background of the political showground for years, term limits did not make prominent headline news until 1989 when a group of people in Oklahoma began a movement to confine the number of years in office a political member could hold. Proponents of term limits in Oklahoma believed that too many officeholders are in office too long and that political careers are “unhealthy to a representative democracy”.