Should Elected Officials Have Term Limits

Do you think that elected officials should be term limited?

Elected officials often hold their position for an extensive duration of time. The founding fathers placed a length of time before the terms of senators, representatives, and executives are expired and need to be reelected in the Constitution, and the twenty-second amendment placed term limits on the United States president. Why ought to other elected officials have term limits?

As the grass withers and the flower fades, the current leaders will one day fade away. As that day approaches, would America be left as a sheep with out a shepherd? Americans’ will either be led be leaders who are not prepared to lead or be led astray. Term limits on officials would prohibit an elected

officials from remaining in the same office for countless terms. Rather, these public servants would stand behind and lift up the youth willing to take their place so that freedom would not fail. Commander in chief of the Pacific Flee Chester W. Nimitz stated, “Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.” Instead of fighting alone, Nimitz chose men to build into soldiers. Nimitz looked for men who he can train to be the next generation military leaders to train. Nimitz strategy should be applied by elected officials ensuring their offices is always held by a defender of liberty.

Without training the next generation, elected officials would be as career politicians. Elected officials, who are public servants, serve the nation and invest into the future leaders. Elected officials, who are career politicians, work to retain their position. Career politicians ought to be stopped by a constitutional amendment. The Declaration of Independence makes it clear that government exist to secure self-evident truth; the government doest not exist to create politicians’ jobs.

For these reasons, elected officials should be subject to term limits. Term limits would create more public servants willing to train the next generation of leaders and less career politicians. As an employee has to report his work showing higher than the status quo so that the employer would allow him to retain his job until his job limit, elected officials ought to always work harder to continue to earn the American people’s vote until their term limit.