Overturning Term Limits: The Legislature's Own Private Idaho?

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political science at the University of Denver anc/ the author of Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy (Routledge, 1998). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation lBISCF) and has published widely on the process and politics of direct democracy, interest groups, and political parties in the American states. He would like to thank Gary Moncrief, Dan Levin, and his colleagues last year at the University of Florida, particularly Jeff Gill ancl Dave Hecige, for their critical feedback on this article. He can be contacted at dasmith@du.edu. Let's not mince words, the Idaho Legislature, with Speaker Newcomb as headthug, has launched a coup d'etat against the people. It must not stand. Paul Jacobs (2002), Senior Fellow, U.S. Term Limits