U.S. Term Limits

This article is about the non-profit group. For general information about the topic, see Term limits in the United States.

U.S. Term Limits (USTL) is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to enacting term limits for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and says it has helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government.^[2]

U.S. Term Limits

Founded at	Washington D.C.[1]
Focus	Term Limits
Area served	United States
Methods	Referendums Article V Convention Grassroots campaigns
Key people	Philip Blumel (President) Nick Tomboulides (Executive Director)
Website	termlimits.com

Among other activities, USTL supports statewide ballot initiatives to impose term limits. In the early 1990s, USTL organized grassroots campaigns that placed term limits on the congressional delegations of 23 states. These were overturned as unconstitutional in 1995 by the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton.

U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention to propose amendments under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, focused specifically on a term limits amendment.^[3][4][5] Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida,^[6] Alabama,^[7] Missouri,^[8] West Virginia,^[9] Wisconsin,^[10] Oklahoma, ^[11] Tennessee,^[12] Louisiana,^[13] North Carolina,^[14] South Dakota,^[15] Indiana,^[16] and South Carolina.^[17] This is about 35% of the 34 states required to call for a convention.

Additionally, resolutions have been passed by the Georgia Senate^[18] and the Arizona House of Representatives.^[19] However, all resolutions must be passed by both houses of each of the state legislatures to take effect.