Friday, August 26, 2011

A proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States of America

Subject: AN amendment relating to eligibility, terms, and limits for service in the Houses of Congress of the United States.

A person may serve up to 4 full terms of two years in the lower house (House of Representatives.) in his lifetime.He also may not stand for election after having served  7 years  in the house..

A person may serve up to three full terms of six years in the upper house (the Senate)
He also may not stand for election or reappointment after having served a total of fifteen years in the Senate.

For a person to be eligible for election to the Lower House he must have lived in his district for three years immediately previously and must have been present in his district either 275 days in the year previous to filing for the election or an average of three-hundred days or more over the previous three years. Current Incumbents of the US House seeking reelection are exempt from this qualification.

For election to the Upper Chamber, a person must have  must have lived and worked in his state for three years immediately previously and must have been present in his state either 275 days in the year previous to filing for the election or an average of three-hundred days or more over the previous three years. Current Incumbents of the US Senate seeking reelection are exempt from this qualification.

Upon the Decennial Census based reapportionment,an incumbent member of the House of Representatives may seek reelection to the same seat he currently occupies
 or one that either represents the incumbent's home of record from the previous term or an adjacent district that 3/8th's or more of the district's residents were in said Representative's previous district.