Unable to seek a third term as governor owing to mandated term limits, Carper ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and was easily elected.
To qualify, African heads of state have to have left office during the last three calendar years, having been democratically elected and served their constitutionally mandated term.
Prosecutors offered Blount a plea that would carry a mandated term of at least eighteen years; if he didn't take it, they said, they would bring additional charges.
It is telling that Joseph Kabila, the President whom Ndala worked so hard to impress, has postponed new elections, and has so far refused to honor the constitutionally mandated term limits that prevent him from running for a third term.
What was needed to rescue the republic, Gingrich declared, was the end of the forty-year control of Congress by the Democratic Party; the weakening of congress itself (through constitutionally mandated term limits and spending controls); rejection of Clinton administration policies; and the passage of ten legislative proposals, most of them controversial and some apparently unconstitutional.
Local governments rushed to pass punitive laws against tramping and vagrancy, mandating terms of six months to two years of hard labor in workhouses.
Secession may be a dead issue constitutionally, but state sovereignty is a live disagreement, resurfacing recently in the Supreme Court when it narrowly stuck down an Arkansas law mandating term limits for its federal representatives.
From just over 300,000 inmates in state and federal prisons in 1978 the population has exploded to 1.57m today, the product of policies like "zero tolerance" and "three-strikes" which mandated jail terms for certain offences and lengthened sentences.
Mr. Galbraith argued that technology mandated long-term contracts to diminish high-stakes uncertainty.
Last summer, a few months into his second and (constitutionally mandated) final term, Johnson told state G.O.P. leaders that he was determined to make the most of his bully pulpit while he had it.
