Amendment 30: Term Limits
Section 1. The President of the United States will be restricted to one, six-year term, a maximum of eight years if succeeding to the Presidency from the Vice-Presidency. The eight years are not required to be continuous service.
Section 2. The Vice-President may not serve more than six years in said office.
Section 3. Persons may serve no more than two six-year terms as Senator. If appointed to fill an empty seat, a person may serve no more than a total of fourteen years as a Senator.
Section 4. Persons may serve no more than five two-year terms as a member of the House of Representatives. If appointed to fill an empty seat, a person may serve no more than eleven years as a member of the House of Representatives.
Section 5. Supreme Court Justices may serve no more than ten years. Every year the President, on September 1st, with the advice and consent of the Senate, will appoint one Supreme Court Justice who will take the place of the most senior member then sitting on the Court. The most senior member will be the Justice who has served the longest on the Supreme Court. Should a Justice leave or be removed from the Court, that seat will remain vacant until such time as it would have normally fallen into the replacement rotation. Until all of the current Justices have been replaced, one each year, the ten year limit will not apply to them. However, with the adoption of this amendment, their terms are no longer for life.
Section 6. No person shall serve in any non-elected position with the federal government (Supreme Court Justices are considered elected for this section) for more than ten years. That does not preclude anyone from leaving an appointed position and being "hired" into a civil service position; such employment would then be subject to standard civil service rules concerning longevity.
Robert G. Butler
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Marmaduke, AR 72443
"...Therefore, never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee...: Meditation 17 by John Donne 1624
