Term Limits
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Research
Studies
"Assessing the Term Limits Experiment: California and Beyond," by Patrick Basham, Cato Policy Analysis No. 413, August 31, 2001.
"What Term Limits Do that Ordinary Voting Cannot," by Einer Elhauge, Policy Analysis No. 328. December 16, 1998.
"Term Limits and the Republican Congress: The Case Strengthens," by Aaron Steelman, Cato Briefing Paper No. 41, October 28, 1998.
"Real Term Limits: Now More Than Ever," by Doug Bandow, Cato Policy Analysis No. 221, March 28, 1995.
"Temporizing on Term Limits: The Speaker Likes 12 Years, Not 6," by James Bond, Briefing Paper No. 22, February 7, 1995.
"An Antidote to Federal Red Ink: Term Limits," by Stephen Moore and Aaron Steelman, Cato Briefing Paper No. 21, November 3, 1994.
"Will the Gentlemen Please Yield?--A Defense of the Constitutionality of State-Imposed Term Limitations," by Neil Gorsuch and Michael Guzman, Cato Policy Analysis No. 178, September 24, 1992.
"Term Limitation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come," by John H. Fund, Cato Policy Analysis No. 141, October 30, 1990.
Books
The Politics and Law of Term Limits, edited by Edward H. Crane and Roger Pilon (1994).
Opinion and Commentary
"California Dreamin'? The Campaign to End Term Limits," by Patrick Basham, A Cato Daily Commentary, March 5, 2002.
"Term Limits Lessons for Campaign Reform," by Patrick Basham, A Cato Daily Commentary, August 31, 2001.
"Where Term Limits Lead To Tax Cuts," by Michael New, A Cato Daily Commentary, August 17, 2001.
"Legislation Plays Party Favorites While It Tries to Scrap Free Speech," by Robert A. Levy, Detroit News, March 20, 2001.
"Oops! That term limit pledge? Maybe I was wrong!," by Patrick Korten, A Cato Daily Commentary, January 7, 1999.
"Issue Advocates Beware," by Robert A. Levy, Washington Times, April 26, 1998. Also appeared as "Legislation Hurts Political Expression," Los Angeles Daily News; "Campaign Finance 'Reform' is Back, Uglier Than Ever," Mesa Tribune (Arizona). Reprinted in Orange County Register, "Restrictions on 'Issue Advocacy' Spending Would Limit Free Debate," May 3, 1998; and also in the Harrisburg Patriot as "Election Bill Would Gut Free Speech," May 7, 1998.
"Strangling Free Speech in Order to Save It?," by Robert A. Levy, A Cato Daily Commentary, January 13, 1998.
"Muzzling Political Discourse," by Robert A. Levy, Journal of Commerce, January 6, 1998. Also appeared in the Arizona Republic, January 4, 1998; Arizona Daily Star, December 27, 1997; Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 6, 1998;
"Making Use of the Constitution: A Term Limits Amendment," by Roger Pilon, A Cato Daily Commentary, January 31, 1997.
"Campaign Finance Reform vs. Term Limits," by Edward Crane, June 26, 1996.
"Corruption, Campaign Finance, and Term Limits," by James L. Buckley, Cato Policy Report, March/April 2000.
"Who's Afraid of a Constitutional Amendment on Term Limits?" by Roger Pilon, Wall Street Journal, October 16, 1996.
"Term Limits and The Great Con-Con Hoax," by Roger Pilon, A Cato Daily Commentary, September 2, 1996.
"A Survey, Critque, and New Defense of Term Limits," by Alexander Tabarrok, Cato Journal 14:2, 1994.
From the Cato Handbook for Congress
"Term Limits and the Need for a Citizen Legislature," Chapter 9 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108th Congress.
"Limited Government and the Rule of Law," Chapter 2 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108th Congress.
"Term Limits and the Need for a Citizen Legislature," Chapter 9 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 107th Congress.
"Term Limits and the Need for a Citizen Legislature," by Edward H. Crane, The Cato Handbook for Congress: 106th Congress, 1999.
Congressional Testimony and Speeches
"The Presidential System and Campaign Reform," by Roger Pilon, testimony before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, March 29, 2000. Broadcast on C-SPAN, March 29, 2000.
"Congressional Term Limits," by Edward H. Crane, before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, United States Senate, January 25, 1995.
Events
"Term Limits and American Government," A Cato Institute policy forum, February 27, 2001.