ADVISORY OPINION TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL — LIMITED POLITICAL TERMS IN CERTAIN ELECTIVE OFFICES.
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December 19, 1991.
December 19, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Louis F. Hubener, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Michael L. Rosen and David E. Cardwell of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee, for Citizens For Ltd. Political Terms.
Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Term Limits Legal Institute, and Richard N. Friedman, Miami, for amicus curiae, In Support Of Proposed Amendment.
Arthur J. England, Jr., Chet Kaufman and Ross A. McVoy of Fine Jacobson Schwartz Nash Block & England, Miami, and James S. Portnoy of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for respondents: Let the People Decide — Americans For Ballot Freedom, R. Ed Blackburn, former Sheriff of Hillsborough County and former member of the Florida House of Representatives, J. Hyatt Brown, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Doyle E. Conner, former Com'r of Agriculture, Louis de la Parte, former President of the Florida Senate, Raymond Ehrlich, former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Richard W. Ervin, former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Richard A. Pettigrew, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, T. Terrell Sessums, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Parker D. Thomson, Partner, Thomson, Muraro, Bohrer & Razook, and Ralph Turlington, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and former Com'r of Educ.
Jonathan B. Sallet, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and Scott A. Sinder of Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., for respondents, Nat. Conference of State Legislatures and Southern Legislative Conference of The Council of State Governments.
Steven R. Ross, Gen. Counsel to the Clerk and Charles Tiefer, Deputy Gen. Counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, U.S. Representative Lawrence J. Smith, In Opposition to the Proposed Amendment.
Supreme Court of Florida.
GRIMES, Justice.
The Attorney General has petitioned the Court for an advisory opinion on the validity of an initiative petition providing for limited political terms for certain elective offices.1 In response to the Attorney General's request, we issued an order permitting interested parties to file briefs and heard oral argument on the validity of the proposed amendment.
The initiative petition provides as follows:
The...
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