U.S. Term Limits

U.S. Term Limits is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to enacting term limits for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and claims to have helped facilitate over 500 successful term limits campaigns at various levels of government.[1]

This article is about the non-profit group. For general information about the topic, see Term limits in the United States.

Among other activities, USTL supports statewide ballot initiatives to impose term limits. In the early 1990s, USTL organized grassroots campaigns that placed term limits on the congressional delegations of 23 states. These were overturned as unconstitutional in 1995 by the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton.

U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention of the states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, focused specifically on a term limits amendment.[2] Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida,[3] Alabama,[4] and Missouri.[5]

References
  1. "The Term Limits Convention HandbookFor Lawmakers" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. "U.S. Term Limits Launches Article V Convention Effort - U.S. Term Limits". www.termlimits.org. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  3. "Florida House of Representatives - HM 417 - Article V Convention for Congressional Term Limits". www.myfloridahouse.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  4. "Alabama Legislature Passes Term Limits on Congress Convention Resolution" (PDF). ALISON. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  5. "Missouri General Assembly Passes Term Limits on Congress Convention Resolution". www.senate.mo.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
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