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Term Limits Reading Assignnment
for Y396: Spend some time looking over the US Term Limits web site. Read some of its press releases look over a couple of issues of their newsletter “No Uncertain Terms” http://www.termlimits.org/ Then compare that perspective to the anti-term limit position: http://www.perkel.com/politics/issues/limits.htm
and especially Peter Schrags’ arguments against
term limits for The Washington Post has a special report term limits. Read the short article by Susan Heavey http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/termlimits/termlimits.htm and then on the click on one of the links at the bottom of that article and read a few of the columns that constitute an ongoing debates between Washington Post columnists George Will and David Broder Come to class ready to discuss the idea of term limits. I’ll add in some of the academic research that has been done to our discussion. |