Lee Metcalf: “today's growing support of term limits is a recognition of Lord Acton's dictum, power corrupts and absolute power…”

“today's growing support of term limits is a recognition of Lord Acton's dictum, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Over 25-years ago I introduced a bill launching the fight for term limits. As a Washington State Senator, I saw that long-term service concentrates power in the hands of a few and reduces effective representation by the majority of any legislative body. Mr. Speaker, our representative system is based on the concept of a citizen Congress where people serve a limited time and then return home to live under the laws they have made. My State has passed and I support a 6-year term limit. Seventy-five percent of the people all around this Nation have decided that limiting terms will best allow them full representation in Congress. By passing congressional term-limit laws in the States, they have given us a mandate. Pass a term limit amendment for the Congress, as the Congress passed a term limit for the Presidency.”