Comment by dragonwriter

> For congressional seat/term limits on parties.

Limits on parties like you discuss are a dumb idea, because they are trivially evaded by factional alliances that aren't formally parties.

OTOH, you wouldn't even need to have a reason to consider them if you simply had an electoral system that didn't lead to national duopoly frequently consisting of regional monopolies, e.g., if the legislative branch was elected in multiseat districts with a system structurally providing roughly proportional results, like Single Transferrable Vote.

The social technology of democracy has advanced since the 18th Century, but the most important parts of that advance, have been ignored in the US, at least at the federal level and statewide levels, though some local use is seen.