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ed. J. Elliot, 1863, vol. 2, p. 320 (quoting Hamilton);

Gary S. Becker, "Reforming Congress: Why Limiting Terms

Won't Work," Business Week, August 6, 1990, p. 18; and

Polsby, "Constitutional Mischief," p. 43.

69. Lott, "Political Cheating," pp. 177-79.

70. 435 U.S. 618 (1978).

71. See Hibbing, Congressional Careers; and Hibbing,

"Contours of the Modern Congressional Career."

72. See Gerald Benjamin and Michael J. Malbin, Table B-2,

in Limiting Legislative Terms (Washington: Congressional

Quarterly, 1992), p. 293.

73. Tr. at 72 (testimony of Professor Morris Fiorina of

Harvard University).

74. Tr. at 101, 110; and Charles R. Kesler, "Bad

Housekeeping: The Case against Congressional Term Limits,"

in Limiting Legislative Terms, p. 246.

75. See W. Robert Reed and D. Eric Schansberg, "The

Behavior of Congressional Tenure over Time: 1953-1991,"

Public Choice 73 (1992): 184.

76. See Daniel and Lott, p. 174.

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