Never heard of Jack Adsit? He’s a hero a veteran of World War II and the struggle for term limits in Wyoming. For the last dozen years, Jack’s battled his state’s most powerful politicians and special interests, first to petition to put term limits on the ballot and win, and then to defend this vote of the people from an array of legislative and legal assaults.

Political neophyte Adsit had his skeptics. But he won and won big. In 1992, Wyoming voters sent an unequivocal message, with 77 percent favoring term limits the highest percentage for a term limits measure of any state in the nation. But just weeks later, legislators in Cheyenne were gutting the new law.

Jack drove 320 miles through the snow to testify before a committee of his public servants, who acted more like a lynch mob. The House Speaker mocked the very idea that they should listen to “some Okie who has never stepped foot in the capitol before.” Jack kept his cool fighting this and many other assaults against term limits by arrogant legislators.

Now, as the term limits are set to remove the first long-serving politicians, a lawsuit by two legislators goes before the state Supreme Court. These politicians have no respect for the voters. In fact, they despise the very idea that simple-minded voters would dare to tell them what to do. Our hope is found in ordinary Americans people like Jack Adsit who believe in citizen control of government and stand up to defend their rights.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.