Topic summary
Term limits
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Term limit.
Mechanism
Term limits may take the form of consecutive term limits or lifetime term limits. With consecutive term limits, an officeholder can only serve a certain number of terms before they have to stop running for that office. After a set period of time, the clock resets on the limit, and the officeholder may run for election to their original office and serve up to the limit again. With lifetime limits, an officeholder may never again run for election to that office when they have served up to the limit. Lifetime limits are much more restrictive than consecutive limits.