Term limits simply put even more power in the hands of unelected legislative aides, because they become the only people with the tenure to understand the issues

Term limits simply put even more power in the hands of unelected legislative aides, because they become the only people with the tenure to understand the issues involved, let alone the particular wording of the bills. It's already the case that effective members of Congress are the ones who attract the best legislative aides.[1] Those who don't have high-quality aides rarely impact any legislation. If we enact term limits, our legislators will have even less room to impact the laws themselves -- either they'll hand over the whole way their office is run to great legislative aides, or they'll be irrelevant back benchers whose only role is to vote yea or nay on laws other people wrote. Whichever route they choose, the power of the legislators -- the people actually accountable to voters -- will be decreased. [1] Put the arrows of causation wherever you'd like in that sentence.