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Editor, Times-Union:
On June 11 of 2024, voters in North Dakota approved a referendum barring residents of North Dakota 80 or older from running or serving in Congress, thereby creating a mandatory retirement age for the North Dakota congressional delegation. The text of that North Dakota amendment is listed below.
Congressional Age Limits (North Dakota)
Section 1 - Maximum age of 80 years. No person may be elected or appointed to serve a term or a portion of a term in the U.S. Senate of the U.S. House of Representatives if that person could attain 81 years of age by December 31st of the year immediately preceding the end of the term.
The above amendment should be adopted by each state in the Union in the meantime and eventually implemented as part of a constitutional amendment for all three branches of the federal government creating a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress, the Oval Office and the Supreme Court. Such an amendment to the U.S. Constitution should also include the following measures for the executive and judicial branches.
Presidential Age Limits
22nd Amendment Modification - Presidential Term Limits
Section 1. No Person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice and shall retire at the end of the current term upon reaching the age of 77 if in office and may only supersede this restriction if a two-thirds majority of Congress and the legislatures of the states approve of that current office-holder or candidate(s) doing so.
U.S. Supreme Court Age Limits
Article III Modification - The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts shall hold their Offices during good Behavior until the age of 81 and shall retire at the end of the calendar year of that birthday.
Voters of all stripes whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, America First or other should urge their representatives in the Indiana General Assembly to adopt Congressional age limits for their state and urge their representatives and Senators in Congress to adopt all three measures nationwide as a part of a future constitutional amendment.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
