RALEIGH, N.C. – Most North Carolina voters, 85 percent, think state House and Senate leaders should be limited in the number of terms they serve.
 
All legislators currently serve two-year terms. Fifty-one percent of voters think legislators should be limited to serving four years or less in a leadership position. Seventy-one percent said they should be limited to six years or less.
 
Another 14 percent said four terms should be the limit. Nine percent of voters do not believe there should be a limit on how long a legislator can be in charge of the state House or Senate.
 
Legislative term limits appear to have broad and continuing support as a March 2011 Civitas poll found 76 percent of voters back a constitutional amendment limiting the term limits for state House and Senate leaders.
 
“As well as backing term limits overall, voters are very strongly in support of limiting terms for legislative leadership,” said Civitas Institute President Francis De Luca.