Issue Position: Fight for Term Limits

Issue Position

We must encourage innovation and ingenuity to improve the condition of our great state. The Mississippi Legislature's seniority-based power structure places too much influence in the hands of a few, entrenched career politicians. Under this approach, our legislators become complacent while sitting on their hands waiting 10 to 20 years before they can get anything accomplished. Their focus becomes not on what they can do to move Mississippi forward, but instead on how to build seniority - then they'll worry about actually doing something. This is not how our democratic institutions were designed to work.

Jansen wholeheartedly believes in the idea of the citizen legislator -- that's why he will fight to make sure that Mississippi joins the 15 other states in the nation, including Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, that limits the terms that any one person can serve in the state legislature. Legislative term limits will push career legislators out of power and shift the focus away from building seniority and towards building a better Mississippi.

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In addition to fighting to term limit our own state legislators, Jansen will fight to bring term limits to the United States Congress by supporting a convention of the states resolution in the Mississippi House aimed at amending the U.S. Constitution to implement term limits for members of Congress.

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