On term-limited Presidents

I think it would be far more productive to return to the founders' vision of the separation of powers. The executive (a.k.a. the President) should not be elected by popular vote. We should return to the original principle of the Electoral College and reinstate all the original protections and balances that Jefferson envisioned. The states must not be allowed to turn the Electoral College into a rubber stamp for democracy. The electors can be selected in whatever manner the states wish, but there should not even be a popular election for President.

This also gives me the opportunity to get on one of my other favorite soap boxes. The Seventeenth Amendment absolutely must be repealed. The current turmoil and madness in American politics is largely due to a group of 100 men and women forming an oligarchy to hand out goodies from the public trough. The sovereign states are no longer represented and the national government, bloated and out of control, walks over them with impunity.

The founders didn't place term limits in their model because they weren't necessary. They were building a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The forces of social democracy have been chipping away at that model ever since and its foundation is now perilously thin and weak. We can probably survive another 200 years if we do an about-face right now and head back toward the model of a constitutional republic. We can't survive another 50 years if we don't.