Texas Nationalist Movement

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Would there be term limits?

That is a decision for the people of Texas and the government they elect, not a promise this movement makes. There is a strong starting point already in place, and the question of term limits is exactly the kind of choice self-government puts back in Texans' hands.

This belongs to Texans, not to the movement

The Texas Nationalist Movement's job is to win independence and secure the result, not to pre-write the rules of a government that does not yet exist. Whether an independent Texas adopts term limits, for which offices, and of what length, is a structural choice that belongs to the people and their elected representatives. Locking in that answer today would be deciding for Texans something Texans should decide for themselves, and the movement takes no partisan side on it.

The starting point is already strong

Independence does not begin from nothing on this question. Texas already holds regular elections, which are themselves a recurring check on every officeholder. Every term already ends at the ballot box, where voters can keep or replace anyone. Whatever Texas decides about formal term limits would build on a system in which the people already get the regular, final say over who holds power.

There are real choices, and Texans get to weigh them

Term limits are a genuine debate in every republic, with honest arguments on both sides. Limits can bring fresh faces and curb entrenchment. The absence of limits can preserve experience and leave the choice entirely to voters. Reasonable people disagree, and that disagreement is precisely what a self-governing people are equipped to settle through their constitution and their lawmakers. The movement does not put its thumb on that scale.

Self-government means owning the rules

The deeper answer is that the power to set rules like this is the whole point of independence. Inside the union, the structure of high office is shaped by a distant federal system. An independent Texas decides its own offices, its own terms, and its own limits, openly, through its own institutions. Term limits are one example of a much larger truth: the rules of Texas government become Texans' to write.

The bottom line

There might be term limits, and that is for Texans to decide. The starting point already gives voters the final say every election, and independence hands the people the power to set the rest of the rules themselves.

Texas First. Texas Forever.

Texas should govern Texas. Be counted.

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