Giving up on democracy : why term limits are bad for America /
No item of the House Republicans' roundly reviled Contract with America failed more conspicuously than congressional term limits, as a half-hearted Speaker Gingrich declined to demand party allegiance to them as he had for other contract measures. A good thing, too, says Kamber, for the term-li...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Regnery Pub. ;
[1995]
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| Summary: | No item of the House Republicans' roundly reviled Contract with America failed more conspicuously than congressional term limits, as a half-hearted Speaker Gingrich declined to demand party allegiance to them as he had for other contract measures. A good thing, too, says Kamber, for the term-limits movement is profoundly antidemocratic, an attempt by anarchic libertarians and wealthy would-be plutocrats to expunge political experience from Congress and state legislatures so that lobbyists and professional legislative staffers unbeholden to the electorate will be drawing up laws and seeing to their passage. Kamber is very persuasive in arguing that view of term limits and even more persuasive in maintaining that experienced politicians make the best legislators. It is campaign and legislative procedural reform that U.S. politics needs, he insists, not term limits, and he finishes his brief with a resume of such reforms that will do good and others, including some the 104th Congress has already enacted, that will not. - Ray Olson--BL 10/01/1995. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 089526465X 9780895264657 |