limiting the time served in office by elected representatives

Term limits ensure that politicians do not become corrupted by power and lose touch with the people and principles which got them elected in the first place. Representatives who spend too many years in office, living in the national capital far from their constituents and surrounded by lobbyists and party managers, easily become part of a professional governing class, remote from the concerns of normal people. Term limits would recreate a class of citizen-legislators, who see politics as a brief chance to make their country better, rather than as a long-term comfortable career for themselves
 
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