When ordinary people debate term limits| Paul Chiampa

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with old friends (are there any others today?) at the venerable Lenox Club in Lenox. For history buffs, the Lenox Club was founded in 1864 in the Berkshires and then became the Gentlemen’s Reading Club in 1874.

As we sat on the porch, drinking cocktails and lying to ourselves about how great we looked and how little we had changed, groups of people of similar ages began to arrive, about 40 people in all. There is a Music Room, a Ladies’ Lounge and a Men’s Library for group discussions.

I asked one of the participants what was going on. He said it was an ad hoc group of citizens concerned about age and term limits in American political life and their impact on the three branches of the federal government. The organizer later shared with me a summary of the course.