Term Limits
SUMMARY
Today 90% of elected officials are reelected term after term leading to more and more power in fewer hands with less oversight. The Valentine Constitution limits total years in elected offices to reduce cronyism, complacency, corruption, ability to repay political favors and influence legislation. The excellent honest career politician may be granted an additional term with the consent of 2/3rds of the voters, and all will be allowed to continue to do good work in other jobs or other elected offices.
Lower house terms are increased from 2 years to 4 years so that elected officials will spend more time working, and less campaigning. Their governing is now constantly distracted by re-election considerations, putting today’s Representatives in constant campaign mode. Their primary job becomes re-election and their part time job becomes governing, and we end up with legislatures full of marketing experts rather than good lawmakers. 4 years allows enough time for politicians to learn the legislative process, simplified under The Valentine Constitution, and get some real work done. 2 years does not.
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Valentine put all our issues into one piece of national legislation.
90% of Americans can get what we want most by compromising on issues we care less about.
We can now combine our power behind a single common goal and finally get what we’ve wanted for decades.
The amendments clause of our current constitution allows us to dictate solutions to our politicians and force them to vote on it.
Valentine spent 50,000 hours over 45 years adding solutions to all the modern problems our old Constitution fails to cover while keeping 90%, our foundations and rights intact.
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