Assignment Number Four
Assignment: Make an
argument for which party is best to support your interest (Democrat or
Republican). How would you influence the
party to adopt your cause? Be creative
and use prior
examples of groups
influencing parties. Post to blog
<1000 words.
Republicans are currently the party most open to the idea of
term limits. According to termlimits.org, republican candidates showed
widespread support for term limits before exiting the race. Ted Cruz, Marco
Rubio, Dr. Ben Carson, and Rand Paul being term limits strongest supporters;
Donald Trump has yet to way in, simply promising to look seriously into the
issue.
Republicans are most likely to back term limits, but to say
democrats aren’t in support is incorrect. According to Gallup “Republicans and independents
are slightly more likely than Democrats to favor term limits; nevertheless, the
vast majority of all party groups agree on the issue.” The Gallop poll went on
to indicate 82% of the GOP, 79% of Independents, 65% of Democrats are in favor
of term limits for member of congress.
After FDR served
and unprecedented 12 years, congress implemented term limit legislation on the
Presidency. Truman, a Democrat, inquired as to why this didn’t include the
senate members as well. Written in Truman’s own hand, Letters stored in the
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum at the University of Missouri, state “The
Congress has passed a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment limiting the
terms of the President to two. That resolution should have also contained a provision
for two terms for Senators-12 years, and for members of the House-12 years. It
should have contained a provision that House members should have a period of
service of four years.”
https://www.termlimits.org/where-do-the-presidential-candidates-stand-on-term-limits/ http://www.gallup.com/poll/159881/americans-call-term-limits-end-electoral-college.aspx https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/psf/longhand/index.php?documentVersion=both&documentid=hst-psf_naid735381-01&pagenumber=1
One way I would influence the
party to adopt our cause would to provide evidence of why keeping the same
members of congress in office for 12 years is limiting political change. In
order to influence the party to adopt our cause, we would have to pay the party
significant benefits so the party would want to support our position.
Incentives and proof would be essential in convincing our party to support our
cause. “Term limits provide fresh faces with fresh
ideas to elected office. They reduce lobbyist and special interest influence
and make room in Congress for the citizen legislator.” A good example of someone influencing a party would be JP Morgan and Chase Bank supporting Hillary Clinton this election. In order to get the influence, they desired they had to donate enough money to express their interest. These two in particular donated close to $1,000,000.
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