Recently I read the letter “People should demand term limits for Congress” (May 8), regarding term limits for the U.S. Congress and another for the state government. As Mr. Landolt’s letter correctly pointed out, politicians aren’t about to embrace this idea on their own, so it’s about time that we the people take up this matter.

Article 5 of the Constitution provides that “…on the Application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, Congress shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.”

I suggest that the following amendment be proposed by our state lawmakers. I call it the rule of sixes.

U.S. Representatives: maximum of three terms, six years.

U.S. Senate: two six-year terms, alternating to allow for continuity.

U.S. President: one six-year term. This would always make the incumbent a lame duck, not spending his entire first term campaigning for a second and maybe doing the people’s work.

Now maybe, if Mr. Bowles, who is running for a Connecticut Senate seat and is proposing state term limits, is serious, he can get Connecticut to be the first state to get the two thirds necessary to establish what the framers of the Constitution really meant.

I understand this will take courage on our lawmakers’ part, but we all agree that something needs to be done.

Jim Mugavero

Quaker Hill