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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
Term limits on US Supreme Court Justices and on Members of Congress (both House and Senate) would have to be accomplished by Constitutional amendments.
This would be an almost impossible thing to happen. It would take many years and different administrations to accomplish. The amendment limiting the President to two terms took until the 1950's to be ratified. This was only for President.
Just imagine the partisan back and forths if it were for the Supreme Court much less Congress.
I will venture it will never happen.
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Not really. George Washington, when asked to run for a third term, said he believed that 2 terms should be the most any one man should serve as president. This statement served as a tradition for 144 years until FDR ran a 3rd time in 1940. When he was elected for a 4th term and died a few months later, it was felt that an amendment should codify the tradition set by Washington. The 22nd amendment was submitted for ratification 3/24/47 and subsequently was ratified by a 2/3 majority of both houses and a 3/4 majority of all (48) state legislatures by 2/27/51. Quite a bit quicker than the 27th amendment (delays congressional pay raises until a new congress is seated) which was submitted in 1789 and ratified in 1992