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The legal definition of a Petition is:
"A written application to a governing body requesting an action be taken by the governing body."

This definition is incredibly important to know and understand because there are many who trick people out of their personal contact information by declaring what they are signing is a Petition when there is in fact no intent to use the signee's information to petition for an action. This fraudulent behavior has left many people jaded towards signing Petitions and is in fact illegal in many States where such action is defined as fraud in which false pretense is used to obtain anything of value including personal information.

There are a few elements you can watch for to ensure you are not being tricked and you can present these elements to those who are skeptical to sign the Term Limits for US Congress Petition for the same reason.

1. Does the Petition specifically define "who" the Petition is intended to be submitted to? If there is no clearly defined intention of submitting the Petition to a governing body, it is NOT a legitimate Petition as defined by law.

2. Does the Petition request an action be taken by the governing body/authority defined in #1 above? A Petition, by legal definition, must ask a governing body/authority to perform an action. If no requested action is stated, it is NOT a legitimate Petition as defined by law.

The above 2 are the necessities to define a legal petition.

What you can also look for beyond the 2 above are qualifiers for the signee included in the petition.

Examples of this would be the beginning of our petition in which it states, "I the undersigned, being 18 years old or older and a legal resident of the state provided in this e-petition form"

With the defined intent of the Petition to be submitted to Legislators of a State, asking said Legislators to perform a specific action in their State, common sense requires qualifiers to be added to let the Legislators know the signee is both an adult and a resident of the State.

Stop and think about it. If in the Petition you are not stating you are an adult and a legal resident of the address you are supplying, why would the Legislator care that you signed? You could just as easily be a 14 year old from another country rather than a constituent of the Legislator.

Keep these in mind. Mining for personal data, whether to be sold to others or simply to be used as a contact list to request donations from, is very common.

We at Term Limits for US Congress-PAC are the only organization I am currently aware of that is collecting Petition signatures with the intent of presenting the Petitions to State Legislators.

We tend to live our lives in a fishbowl, our personal reality. Our time and attention are monopolized by our daily routines. Our jobs, our family, our friends, and our responsibilities leave little room for much else.

We are so consumed with our fishbowl that we seldom think to look beyond its walls; not realizing that there is an insidious threat creeping ever closer. It is only when it reaches into our bowl that we react, but by then it is too late.

Our government was designed to represent us; to answer to our demands and our needs; to serve us as the term ‘public servant’ directly implies.

Those days are long past.

Over the years the change has occurred subtly. Changing so slowly that few notice while swimming through their personal reality. The threat is now upon us. There is no more pretending that our lives are exempt from the actions of our government.

The US Congress has evolved from representation of the people to self-presentation. They have become what our forefathers feared the most and fought for our freedom. They have become an aristocracy.

Some might feel that to be a dramatic statement, but I challenge you to deny its accuracy.

Read the actual definition:
ar·is·toc·ra·cy
1. people of highest social class: people of noble families or the highest social class
2. superior group: a group believed to be superior to all others of the same kind
3. government by elite: government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility

535 people, 382 of whom are millionaires, spend in some cases as long as 20, 30, or 40 years making decisions that benefit themselves and building their power and wealth, often to the detriment of the public. Instead of representing our wishes and needs, they continue to take more of our earnings. They tell us what to buy, what to eat, what to say, and how to act. We are being ruled, not represented. It can be defined as nothing other than an aristocracy.

Our government has reached the point that they feel secure enough with their power that they can begin to OPENLY rule the people. We have reached a critical stage. If we do not break the aristocracy of the US Congress now, we may find ourselves without the strength to do so in the future.

With the degree of wealth and influence that the career politicians have obtained, we cannot stop them with elections. With so many Americans swimming in their fishbowls, oblivious to the threat, re-elections are easily achieved at a 95% re-election rate due to name recognition, party support, and media exposure prior to the elections paid for by the lobbyists.

There is only one way. TERM LIMITS FOR US CONGRESS.

We cannot allow politicians to make the US Congress a career. We cannot allow a politician to spend 20, 30, or 40 years building an insurmountable power base.

Article 5 provides the option for amending the Constitution without the approval of Congress. When requested by 34 States for a specific topic, an Article 5 Convention is convened. At the Convention the verbiage of the Amendment is hashed out, then voted on, and if it passes, is sent back to the states where it must be ratified by 38 States, then becomes part of the Constitution without ANY INVOLVEMENT OR APPROVAL FROM THE US CONGRESS.

We WILL use this option to impose Term Limits on the US Congress and eliminate the power and corruption of Career Politicians.

We estimate it will take 3 to 5 million petition signatures to pressure the State Legislatures into using this option.

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