If term limits are appropriate for U.S. Presidents, State Legislatures, and countless Municipalities, then they are appropriate for The House of Representatives and The Senate as well. The principal of limited tenure of office is no new idea, and has been implemented historically as a means to circulate authority and prevent corruption.
Term limits, or rotation in office, date back to the American Revolution, and prior to that to the democracies and republics of antiquity. The council of 500 in ancient Athens rotated its entire membership annually, as did the ephorate in ancient Sparta. The ancient Roman Republic featured a system of elected magistrates who served a single term of one year, with reelection to the same magistracy forbidden for ten years.
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