Bacon, Guns & Whiskey

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/why-term-limits-for-congress-face-a-challenging-constitutional-path

You’ll only see one criticism of the Constitution from me (2 if you count the reason for the first one): the Founders rejected the suggestion to institute term limits for Congress — they exist for everyone but Congress. The second one (if you want to separate it from the first, is that the Founders assumed that those who followed in their footsteps would be good, honorable people.)

Why? Federalist 53, quoted by ThoughtCo, states, in part, “[some] members of Congress will … become members of long standing; will be thoroughly masters of the public business, and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages. The greater the proportion of new members of Congress, and the less the information of the bulk of the members, the more apt they be to fall into the snares that may be laid before them” (emphasis mine).

James Madison, like most of the Founders, assumed that future generations would be just as virtuous as they were, and would answer the call to service out of patriotism and a desire to further the cause of liberty. Madison states elsewhere in Fed. 53 that legislators should have “upright intention and a sound judgment” to serve. Boy did they assume way too much of future generations! Instead, we now have career politicians that “serve” only to enrich themselves and we have become the pawns in their pursuit of self-enrichment instead of those to whom their service to nation is obligated.