But what about the thirteen presidents since? Eisenhower and Reagan both supported its repeal, but each was older than any previous president, andthe health of each was fading. Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson retired after his first full term, and Nixon resigned.
Ford, Carter, and Bush were defeated in their reelection bids. Clinton had just been impeached, and his vice president lost the following election—likely similar to a prospective Clinton campaign. George W. Obama, however, still had youth, health, and a majority approval rating at the end of his second term.
After FDR, Obama was the only president likely to have served a third term. Perhaps surprisingly, Congress has a similar average length of service. In , the new Congress had averaged 8. But these average numbers might underestimate the longevity of congressional incumbents. And although the average length of service might be similar to a two-term president, for every freshman, there is a Don Young or Patrick Leahy, each with over 45 years in office.
Supporters of term limits see their proposal as a necessary check on rubber-stamped reelections. That said, term limits could yield unexpected adverse effects. For instance, about They are ordered by the year of term limits' impact--the first year in which incumbents who were serving when the term limits measure was passed are no longer eligible to run for re-election.
At the bottom of the page is a table of states that had term limits in the past but no longer do due to legislative or court action. They first applied to persons elected in The total time may be split between the two chambers, or spent in its entirety in a single chamber. Before , California's limits were six years in the assembly and eight years in the senate. Prior to that, term limits were set by a ballot measure that limited legislators to 16 years of service during his or her lifetime.
Before , limits were six years in the House and eight years in the Senate. Term limits may be divided into two broad categories: consecutive and lifetime. However, a two-thirds majority votes is required to pass a constitutional amendment, and thus the bill failed. The concept subsequently lost momentum by the mid s. Term Limits, Inc. Thornton , that states cannot impose term limits upon their U. Representatives or U. Term limits at the federal level are restricted to the executive branch and some agencies.
The U. Congress, however, remains without electoral limits. Term limits for state governors or others within the state executive branch and other high constitutional offices have existed since the beginning of the United States. One of the first such limits of its kind, the Delaware Constitution of , limited the Governor of Delaware to a single three-year term; the governor of Delaware can serve two 4-year terms.
As of present, there are 36 states have adopted term limits of various types for their governors. One variation allowed a governor to be re-elected, but only to non-consecutive terms.
To circumvent this provision, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama , announced in that voters should elect his wife, Lurleen Wallace, their next governor. It was clear during the campaign that Mrs.
Wallace would be a governor in name only, and thus she was elected the first female governor of Alabama. Beginning in the s, term limit laws were imposed on twenty state legislatures through either successful ballot measures , referenda, legislative acts, or state constitutional changes. The Maine legislature was the first state to enact legislative term limits in Since , however, six state legislatures have either overturned their own limits or state supreme courts have ruled such limits unconstitutional.
In the Idaho Legislature became the first legislature of its kind to repeal its own term limits, enacted by a public vote in , ostensibly because it applied to local officials along with the legislature.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the mayor cannot be elected 3 consecutive times, but there is no limit on how long any individual can serve as mayor.
Frank Rizzo was elected mayor there in and , then tried and failed to get the 3-consecutive ban overturned, so could not run for that office in Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error.
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