ProCon’s Congressional Term Limits Quiz
- Question: Why did George Washington refuse to run for president a third time, thereby establishing a precedent and an unofficial term limit on the presidency?
- Answer: George Washington didn’t run for a third term as president for all of these reasons.
- Question: How long do justices serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
- Answer: U.S. Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, “during good Behaviour,” according to Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution.
- Question: Which president broke the tradition of serving only two terms?
- Answer: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times, dying a few months into his fourth term as president in April 1945.
- Question: Which of the following is a common argument in favor of congressional term limits?
- Answer: All of these are common arguments in favor of congressional term limits.
- Question: Which of the following is a common argument against congressional term limits?
- Answer: All of these are common arguments against congressional term limits.
- Question: Who believed in term limits for leaders and promoted a rotational form of governing, so citizens could take turns being the ruler and the ruled?
- Answer: The ancient Greeks had a tradition of rotational representation—as philosopher Aristotle described it, rule of “all over each and each in turn over all.”
- Question: How many terms may members of the U.S. Congress serve?
- Answer: There has never been a limit on the number of terms that members of the U.S. Congress can serve.
- Question: Congressional term limits can be imposed only through which method?
- Answer: A constitutional amendment would be required to impose congressional term limits.
