From: Ad 

Richard B. wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:44:56 +0000, Adam
>  wrote:
>
>> We have an elected dictatorship without any term limits....
>
> I thought you were talking about Chavez.
>
> I believe term limits are a good tool to prevent abuse of power,
> especially in a republic.  I recall old career politician Fritz
> Hollings saying 'we have term limits, it's called THE VOTE.'
>
> Our gubmint, for all it's warts, still amazes me in the founding
> father's genius.  Warts to me being size and tax limits without
> considerable blockades to prevent growth in either.
>
> - Richard

But they are anti-democratic. The problem wrt the US is much deeper
unfortunately & is a product of the Pols picking their voters rather
than vice versa.

If you wanted to really re-invigorate US politics you'd scrap term limits
& have all districting done by simply taking the population in question
(i.e. the electorate) , divide by number of seats & then start counting
from a point of the compass e.g. the southern most point towards the
northern most point.

  Then you'd probably have less need for term limits as there'd be more
churn.

Adam

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