U.S. Term Limits is a

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to enacting term limits for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and claims to have helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government. Among other activities, USTL supports statewide

ballot initiative In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular initiative or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain number of registered voters can force a government to choose either to enact a law or hold a p ...

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 Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision in '' U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton.'' U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention of the states 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,and Wisconsin.

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U.S. Term Limits homepage
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