Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

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    1 year ago

    It would need to be a fairly large limit. Places that have have short term limits have ended up seeing worse legislators with more corruption. It’s easier for the rich and retired to run often, after all.

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      1 year ago

      When Ralph Nader was asked about this, he said “12 years”, since, after that amount of time, most of them have either “worn out or sold out”. It isn’t a terribly long term, but it is 3x longer than a presidential term.

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        I don’t typically agree with Nader, but 12 does sound fairly reasonable. It’s two consecutive Senate terms or six consecutive House terms, which are plenty.

        I’d make an exception with the supreme court, where a term is 18 years instead. With 9 justices, that comes out to a new justice every 2 years if you spread it out equally. They’d also have a strict term limit of 1 term, you can’t serve as a justice more than once.