ABSTRACT
The state of Alaska has a history with term limits harkening back to the original movements of the 1990s. In 1996, for example, state voters passed a legislatively referred constitutional amendment supporting “an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting U.S. Senators to two terms and U.S. Representatives to three terms” (Ballotpedia, Alaska Term Limits). Term limits became quite popular in Alaska, being imposed on mayors, city council members, school boards, the governor, and the lieutenant governor in the state. Efforts to place term limits on state legislatures, while not in place, come up regularly in Alaska politics. While no official databases on term limits in Alaska exist, Alaskan residents seem to agree that “term limits are as common as moose on the side of the road in Alaska” (Halcro, 2016).
