The El Paso Times published this article Thursday, May 16, 2013. In it the reporter wrote that a proposed bill “would give congress the constitutional authority to set term limits.”
That is wrong and in my opinion deserves a printed correction from the newspaper.
The constitution does not give the congress the right to make anything constitutional that is not already included in the constitution or it’s amendments. Article V of the constitution makes provisions for making changes to it. That can either be done by the affirmative votes of 3/4 of the legislatures of the several states or by the affirmative votes of 3/4 of conventions held in the states. That’s it. Period.
I don’t mean to get into the discussion about whether term limits are good or bad. In the case of the president the XXII amendment was ratified in 1951. Up until then there were no limits on how many times an individual could serve as president. Any change in the number of terms a person could serve in congress would require an amendment — that is unless we want to just ignore the constitution, in which case we would have to ask why we even have one.
I hope that the Times takes steps to clarify the situation, but I am not holding my breath.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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