U.S. Term Limits (USTL) is a

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organization dedicated to enacting

term limits A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of Term of office, terms a Incumbent, person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in Presidential system, presidential and Semi-presidential republic, semi-president ...

for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and says it has helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government. Among other activities, USTL supports statewide

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s 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

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in 1995 by the

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, in a 5–4 decision in '' U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton''. U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention to propose amendments under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, focused specifically on a term limits amendment. Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida, Alabama, Missouri, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota, Indiana, and South Carolina. This is about 35% of the 34 states required to call for a convention. Additionally, resolutions have been passed by the Georgia Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives. However, all resolutions must be passed by both houses of each of the state legislatures to take effect.

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* Political organizations based in the United States Organizations established in 1992 Term limits {{poli-org-stub