Enact term limits for US Congress

    The Congress of the United States has become an overpaid, overstaffed, self-serving institution. It confiscates taxpayer funds to finance exorbitant and unconstitutionally determined salaries, pensions, and perks. Most members of Congress have become more accountable to the Washington establishment than to the people in their home districts. Both Houses of Congress are all too often unresponsive and irresponsible, arrogantly placing themselves above the very laws they enact, and beyond the control of the citizens they have sworn to represent and serve.
 
    The Federal Government was clearly established as a government of limited authority. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution specifically provides that: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

    Over time, the limitations of Federal Government power imposed by the Constitution have been substantially eroded. Preservation of constitutional government requires a restoration of the balance of authority between the federal government and the States as provided in the Constitution, itself, and as intended and construed by those who framed and ratified that document.

    It is time for the American people to renew effective supervision of their public servants, to restore right standards and to take back the government.  The first steps are to have both houses pass an amendment that installs term limits on their members.

    By signing this petition, you should support the notion that Congress should be limited to 12 years per House.  That is, two-6 year terms for each member of the Senate and six-two year terms for each member of the House of Representatives.