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Examples of term in the following topics:

• Congressional Terms and Term Limits

  • Members of the Senate may serve unlimited six-year terms and members of the House may serve unlimited two-year terms.
  • Under the Constitution, members of the United States Senate may serve an unlimited number of six-year terms and members of the House of Representatives may serve an unlimited number of two-year terms.
  • The amendment limited members of the Senate to two six-year terms and members of the House to six two-year terms.
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  • Term Limits was the largest private organization pushing for Congressional term limits.

• The 22nd Amendment

  • The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President.
  • Kennedy was assassinated, served the final 14 months (less than two years) of Kennedy's term, was elected president in 1964, and could have been re-elected in 1968 but chose to withdraw from the race.
  • Gerald Ford became president on August 9, 1974, and served the final 29 months (more than two years) of Richard Nixon's unexpired term.
  • No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
  • But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

• The 20th Amendment

  • The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices.
  • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
  • If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
  • If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

• The "Act" of Speaking: Lies as Political Language

  • Communications are such a special type of action, if indeed they are "action" in the proper sense of the term, that they require their own version of the general expression.
  • The implications of analyzing the act of saying a particular thing in terms of goals and side effects are troubling.
  • ) of human communications can be well understood in terms of the expression $S \rightarrow X+Y$ and its possible manipulations.
  • Phenomena such as demagoguery, sycophancy, campaign oratory, and propaganda clearly lend themselves to analysis in these terms, so does censorship, jamming, and other methods of preventing communications.

• The Senate

  • Senators serve staggered six-year terms.
  • Senators serve terms of six years each.
  • This was achieved by dividing the senators of the 1st Congress into thirds (called classes), where the terms of one-third expired after two years, the terms of another third expired after four, and the terms of the last third expired after six years.
  • The staggering of terms has been arranged such that both seats from a given state are not contested in the same general election, except when a mid-term vacancy is being filled.
  • Current senators whose six-year terms expire on January 3, 2013, belong to Class I.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • The Senate has 100 members, elected for a six year term in dual-seat constituencies (2 from each state), with one-third being renewed every two years.
  • The House of Representatives has 435 members, elected for a two year term in single-seat constituencies.
  • Special House elections can occur between if a member dies or resigns during a term.
  • House elections occur every two years, correlated with presidential elections or halfway through a President's term.
  • Describe the relationship between House elections and the Presidential term cycle

• Debate over the Presidency and the Judiciary

  • During the Constitutional Convention, the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate, how "proportional representation" was to be defined, whether to divide the executive power between three people or invest the power into a single president, how to elect the president, how long his term was to be and whether he could stand for reelection, what offenses should be impeachable, the nature of a fugitive slave clause, whether to allow the abolition of the slave trade, and whether judges should be chosen by the legislature or executive.
  • The committee shortened the president's term from seven years to four years, freed the president to seek re-election after an initial term, and moved impeachment trials from the courts to the Senate.
  • It also created the Office of the Vice President whose only roles were to succeed a president unable to complete a term of office and to preside over the Senate.
  • One controversial issue throughout much of the Convention had been the length of the president's term and whether the president was to be term limited.
  • The problem had resulted from the understanding that the president would be chosen by Congress; the decision to have the president be chosen instead by an electoral college reduced the chance of the president becoming beholden to Congress, so a shorter term with eligibility for re-election became a viable option.

• The Executive Branch

  • The President is limited to a maximum of two four-year terms.
  • If the President has already served two years or more of a term to which some other person was elected, he may only serve one more additional four-year term.
  • The people indirectly elect the President to a four-year term through the Electoral College; the president is one of only two nationally elected federal officers.
  • The Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from being elected to the presidency for a third full term.
  • In all, 43 individuals have served 55 four-year terms.

• Minorities, Women, and Children

  • Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history, despite its popular wrongful association with a numerical, statistical minority.
  • In the social sciences, the term minority is used to refer to categories of persons who hold few positions of social power .
  • Children can also be understood as a minority group in these terms, as they are economically non-active and not necessarily given all the rights of adult citizens.

• Red States vs. Blue States

  • The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
  • During the 2000 US presidential election, the term "red states" was coined to mean those states whose residents primarily vote for the Republican Party and "blue states" as those states whose residents primarily vote for the Democratic Party .
  • The terms have been expanded since 2000 to differentiate between conservative-leaning states, depicted in red, and liberal-leaning states, depicted in blue.