Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This article addresses the need for change in a seniority-based political system which fosters and is dominated by self-serving career politicians who rarely appear to serve the public interest. Campaign finance reforms and other remedial approaches show no signs of abating this situation. Term limitations, however, offer a reasonable check on the evil inherent in prolonged legislative power. Even though the constitutionality of state-enacted limitations on federal legislators is debatable, state enacted limitations on state legislative terms are constitutional. The "limited" popular constitutional initiative provided for in the 1970 Illinois Constitution--and the Illinois Supreme Court decisions interpreting that provision--appear to allow for legislative term limits in Illinois. Thus, Illinois may soon participate in the national term limitation movement.
First Page
1
Last Page
70
Publication Date
11-1-1993
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Schlam, Lawrence
(1993)
"Legislative Term Limitation Under A "Limited" Popular Initiative Provision?,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 14:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Suggested Citation
Lawrence Schlam, Legislative Term Limitation Under A "Limited" Popular Initiative Provision?, 14 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1 (1993).
