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''U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton'', 514 U.S. 779 (1995),〔 〕 was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states cannot impose qualifications for prospective members of the U.S. Congress stricter than those specified in the Constitution. The decision invalidated the Congressional term limit provisions of 23 states. The parties to the case were U.S. Term Limits, a non-profit advocacy group, and the politician Ray Thornton, among others. ==Background== Amendment 73 to the Arkansas Constitution denied ballot access to any federal Congressional candidate having already served three terms in the U.S. House or two terms in the U.S. Senate. However, such a candidate was not barred from being written-in and winning by that method. Soon after the amendment's adoption by ballot measure at the general election on November 3, 1992, Bobbie Hill, a member of the League of Women Voters, sued in state court to have it invalidated. She alleged that the new restrictions amounted to an unwarranted expansion of the specific qualifications for membership in Congress enumerated in the U.S. Constitution: and: Also critical to the issue is the 17th Amendment, which transferred power to select US Senators from the state legislature, to the people of the state: U.S. Term Limits claimed that Amendment 73 was "a permissible exercise of state power under the Elections Clause".〔https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1456.ZO.html〕 Both the trial court and the Arkansas Supreme Court agreed with Hill, declaring Amendment 73 unconstitutional. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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