VICE PRESIDENT: A person may serve as Vice President in only one of two mutually exclusive manners:

i) One may hold the office of Vice President for no more than one complete full term or for no more than one decreed full term which categorizes at any duration greater than two years and less than four years within a term.

ii) One may hold the office of Vice President for no more than two partial terms where each is at most two years in duration within a term.

Thus, one cannot log a vice-presidential record that yields any combination of a full or decreed full term with any partial term at two years or less.

HOUSE: No person will be able to serve as a Representative whether for a full term or a decreed full term more than a prescribed number of times (2-3)* and no one is able to serve for more than one recognized partial term.

For those who have yet to attain their one recognized partial term:

* State legislatures will complete 10-year cycle determination or reviews of such upon result of Census. Those reviews are performed via a cumulative and/or reunion manner of all the intervening state legislature incarnations up to and including the current Census legislature.

SENATE: Note: 'Candidates' or 'runs' and such for Senate refer to now popularly elected and the future appointments by election within state legislatures unless otherwise stated.

No person will be able to serve in or be chosen for the Senate for a full or decreed full term after completion of either and no one is able to serve within more than two cyclical terms in the Senate under any circumstance.

Anyone who is successfully chosen to be the first sworn in to a cyclical Senate term or one who is actually the first sworn in to the same -- they shall not serve in the other seat for their state in the Senate (as replacement or otherwise) for the duration of the aforementioned cyclical Senate term should they have left that term before its completion.

In order to gauge when a decreed full term occurs, we apply one of the appropriate following dichotomies to a particular cyclical Senate term --

PRESIDENT: Should it happen that the Vice President not ascend to replace a gone President within the second half of a presidential term and the official Speaker of the House, an in-line successor or basically a person who via any official alternate manner of selection happens to become a replacement President -- being eligible and deciding to run for the next presidential term where by all other constructs is able to be elected to the office of the President twice -- they are subject to a limit: Should that Speaker or that person win the next term they must however sit out the presidential term following that though they may still run for any eligible second term afterwards.

HOUSE: If one has never served as a Representative or Senator (both U.S.) then there will be at least 2 years* fallow before a full Representative term. After having served as a U.S. Representative or as a U.S. Senator in any capacity then there is a required minimum 4 years* fallow period before any full Representative term.

A prior replacement for the term, the one first sworn in for the term or one who was chosen to be the first sworn in for the term: whichever of those cases where one was qualified to finish out the term -- after a break it is resumptive -- there is no minimum fallow period applicable to their returning continuation within the term unless they have served in another office or seat during the interim. In that case, their minimum fallow period becomes the same as a non-resumptive replacement, partial-term Representative......

A non-resumptive replacement, partial-term Representative's prerequisite fallow period minimum* is equal to either the remainder of the original term that they are chosen to finish out or equal to an intended lesser duration they will serve until someone else to be chosen is to step in or until a resumptive prior choice is scheduled (roughly perhaps) to continue the term.

* State legislatures will complete 10-year cycle determination or reviews of whether such should be any greater upon results of Census. Those reviews are performed via a cumulative and/or reunion manner of all the intervening state legislature incarnations up to and including the current Census legislature.

SENATE: Note: 'Candidates' or 'runs' and such for Senate refer to now popularly elected and the future appointments by election within state legislatures unless otherwise stated.

There are no mixes or pairs of full or decreed full terms for Senators, thus there are no defined fallow periods between such. Nonetheless, candidates must not have been in any public office at least 6 years prior to the start of an anticipated full Senate term.

A prior replacement for the term, the one first sworn in for the term or one who was chosen to be the first sworn in for the term: whichever of those cases where one was qualified to finish out the term -- after a break it is resumptive -- there is no minimum fallow period applicable to their returning continuation within the term unless they have served in another office or seat during the interim. In that case, their minimum fallow period becomes the same as a non-resumptive replacement, partial-term Senator......

A non-resumptive replacement, partial-term Senator's prerequisite fallow period minimum is equal to either the remainder of the original term that they are chosen to finish out or equal to an intended lesser duration they will serve until someone else to be chosen is to step in or until a resumptive prior choice is scheduled (roughly perhaps) to continue the term.

PRESIDENT: Same minimum fallow period as Senators - 6 years prior to their first elected full term unless they are fulfilling the end of the preceding term as a replacement President. At least four straight years sitting out of any public office is required before commencing any non-consecutive, successive full term.

Candidates for President must have enough total fallow period throughout their life such that the time accrued in public office by an eligible candidate before becoming President will not exceed half the duration from the day of their potential swearing-in back to their 20th birthday. Again, we do not apply this requirement to those who are fulfilling the end of the preceding term as a replacement President nor to a current President running for a consecutive term. As well, such requirement does not apply when the Congress by law provides for the case of selecting or declaring who shall act as President nor basically upon anyone who is an extraneous choice for President via any official alternate manner of selection. However, the parameters of the requirement are recommended for such cases. (See Amendment XX, sections 3-4.)

[NOTE: Here 'President' instead of 'president' by style of Constitution's text.]

VICE PRESIDENT: At least 6 years prior to any initial elected full term or any initial partial (or decreed full) term nominated and confirmed to. At least four years prior to any successive and eligible partial term which they are nominated and confirmed to.

Candidates or nominees for Vice President must have enough total fallow period throughout their life such that the time accrued in public office by an eligible candidate or nominee before becoming Vice President would not exceed four tenths (2/5) the duration from the day of their potential swearing-in as Vice President back to their 20th birthday.

[NOTE: Here "Vice President" instead of "vice president" by style of Constitution's text.]

HOUSE: No one is eligible to become a House Representative in a standard election who has substantially run for any other office (besides US House) four years prior to the start of the standard term sought nor if they have substantially run for a Representative seat in the previous standard House election except for just a one-time allowable occurrence of such in a state whose legislature makes it permissible.*

No standard candidate for the House may have substantially run for a House seat in non-standard fashion (as a replacement) since after the second to the last previous standard House election.

A candidate running non-standard as a replacement towards a partial-term seat in the House cannot have substantially run for another office (besides US House) within their prerequisite fallow period nor have run as a consecutive substantial by the previous two standard House elections nor run more than once as a replacement between standard elections.

* State legislatures will complete 10-year cycle determination or reviews of whether such should be allowed upon results of Census. Those reviews are performed via a cumulative and/or reunion manner of all the intervening state legislature incarnations up to and including the current Census legislature.

SENATE: Note: 'Candidates' or 'runs' and such for Senate refer to now popularly elected and the future appointments by election within state legislatures unless otherwise stated.

Standard candidates for a particular Senate term must not have attempted substantial popular runs for any other office (besides US Senate) during the preceding 6-year fallow period.

A replacement, partial-term (non-standard) Senate candidate cannot have substantially run popular for any other office (beside US Senate) within their prerequisite fallow period nor have run popularly as a consecutive substantial Senate candidate by the previous two available standard Senate elections for that state. (Ran seat A then B via cycle two or four years later.)

Standard, substantial popular candidates who lose the run for a particular term are not eligible to serve for that specific Senate seat as a replacement for the duration of that whole term. However, they may attempt the other Senate seat for their state as eligible during that same whole term. Note that losing both seats consecutively as the start of this paragraph describes reinforces the prohibition described in the second part of the paragraph above.

If one runs substantially popular as a replacement, partial-term (non-standard) Senate candidate and is defeated, they are not eligible for further service in the Senate for the remaining duration of the term ran for.

As long as one has never had two substantial popular runs for Senate within a 6-year period before commencement of some intended term (full or partial) may one be a substantial, standard popular candidate concerning a particular seat in consecutive fashion at a maximum once (by losing first general election attempt and trying again six years later) and not again likewise for any other seat. In doing so, there can be no further runs for Senate during the trailing term that was the second intended to be seated.

Only once can a substantial competitor for Senate running by popular election whether standard or non-standard (replacement) run or be eligible for the Senate where 6-years prior to the commencement of an intended term (full or partial) such period bounds another previous substantial popular run for the Senate. However, this cannot happen at all if they have already run consecutively for a particular seat as mainly described in the paragraph above.

To be eligible to obtain office in any possible popular run as a replacement, partial-term (non-standard) Senate candidate they must not have had a substantial run on a ballot for the same less than three years prior to the day of the election for their current attempt.

PRESIDENT: A standard candidate for President must not have made a substantial run for any other office within the 6-year fallow period before initiation of the intended term.

Except when running for a consecutive second term, a standard candidate for President may only once be eligible to attain the office by running for President after having been a substantial presidential candidate in the previous standard presidential election.

VICE PRESIDENT: A standard candidate for Vice President must not have substantially run for any other office within four years before initiation of their intended term.

On only one occasion can anyone eligibly run as a standard candidate for Vice President after having substantially run for the same in the previous standard vice-presidential election.

First we attempt to determine the length of a typical working life. By casual observation, people usually begin working a few years within vicinity of 18 and become mostly independent within a few years of 22. Thus we tag as an average start-up of one's working life to about the age of 20. Retirement is around the age of 65, though this may change with life expectancy, one's health, personal finances, social trend or economic conditions. So for a rough average of an individual's working life:

Therefore, we desire that candidates for Congress will have spent at most somewhere near 15 years in political office by the end of their final term. Remember, that approximation will be a maximum we allow. We expect others to have served fewer years to varying degrees across the gamut before leaving Congress for good. This along with the term and fallow specifications helps prevent serving in Congress in an entrenched fashion and works against fulfilling political careerism in the body.

Secondly, despite all those efforts it is still possible for younger candidates to occupy congressional office and have a higher ratio of their total public office years to their real-world working experience years. Under this plan as it is so far, even though all candidates in the end have spent at most near a third of the rough average working life in public office, they may still have had along the way significant periods where their public office duration was greater or equal compared to time spent in jobs/careers or other real-life qualifications up to that point in their lives. To address this we promote the following further restriction which caps public office time accrued by the end of any term to 40% of their spent working-life years indexed to age 20.

Now from there, any candidate whose time out of public office consists of substantially less real-world working experience should be further scrutinized with some allowances made for Bachelors, Masters, Doctorates, medical schools, charity work, child rearing, household management, administering an estate, allowable period of civic work, military service, etc. The greater scrutiny should apply more to the over-privileged / mere-inheritance or spoiled celebrity types, those who are generally crooked and any long-term welfare recipients all with regard to their character, values, work ethic and ideology. The following table exhibits the basic numerical end-of-term restrictions:

Now let's summarize the range and values of aggregate public office time limits for the legislative seats of the U.S. which are predicated by the one-third of rough working-life average derived earlier. We also state aggregate limits for the executive branch:

~ No Representative or Senator will be eligible for any congressional term (full or partial) where at the end of the proposed term the total years the individual has served in public office through local, state and federal governments including full terms and durations served within other terms exceeds some final applicable value of 14-16 years.* An applicable value will be settled upon by each state legislature for its House delegation. A uniform value will be applied to all Senators.

~ No one shall be elected or chosen President to fulfill an upcoming term if at the end of the term sought their aggregate years of service in public office would be greater than twenty years. Such requirement does not apply for time served immediate term to in-line presidential successors beyond Vice President nor when the Congress by law provides for the case of selecting or declaring who shall act as President nor basically upon anyone who is an extraneous choice for President via any official alternate manner of selection. However, the parameters of the requirement are recommended for such cases. (See Amendment XX, sections 3-4.)

~No one shall be eligible to serve as Vice President where if they were to become President and serve all the way through to the end of the following term their aggregate years of service in public office would surpass twenty years.

+ Nevertheless, we do recognize that some of the local public offices may be noticeably more part-time than the full-time representative offices at some of the state and federal levels. Such local offices may only meet once a week for a few hours as compared to the more lengthy daily sessions for some legislators. As well, some state houses have long and short sessions in alternating years. So for those with part-time offices on their resume, they may be prorated some "extra" time to hold office but capped at 4-6 years over what they would receive if the aforementioned aggregate public office time limits where applied to them absolutely.

* State legislatures will complete 10-year cycle determination or reviews of such upon result of Census. Those reviews are performed via a cumulative and/or reunion manner of all the intervening state legislature incarnations up to and including the current Census legislature.