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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.
1. Oklahoma -- Where Term Limits Came Sweeping Down the Plains -- 2. Mandatory Rotation: The History of a Bad Idea -- 3. Populism or Elitism? -- 4. The Myth of Cincinnatus -- 5. California -- The End of the Road -- 6. Laboratories of Chaos -- 7. Are Elections Necessary? -- 8. The Elections of '92 and '94 -- 9. Deforming Congress -- 10. The Learning Curve -- 11. The Permanent Government -- 12. Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors -- 13. The Rich, the Old, and the Bought -- 14. Great Careers -- 15. Term Limits and the President -- 16. Heads of States -- 17. The Constitutional Case Against Term Limits -- 18. U.S. Term Limits volume Thornton -- 19. Amendment Dementia -- 20. The Battle for Washington State -- 21. The Money Behind the Movement -- 22. Term Limits as a Path to Power -- 23. Dissension in the Ranks -- 24. Modern Day Snake Oil -- 25. Polls and the Polis -- 26. Short-Circuiting Democracy: Tyranny by Initiative -- 27. Anti-Politics -- 28. Reform, Not Limits -- 29. Toward a New Civitas -- Appendix: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.
Victor Kamber ; prefaces by Bob Kerrey and Henry Hyde.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, ©1995