Should there be age limits for elected officials, or cognitive tests past a certain age, as some have suggested? Aside from the fact that many younger people could trip on sandbags and that adverse health events can happen at any age, age limits are as discriminatory as they are arbitrary. Finally, it would take a constitutional amendment to institute age limits on elected officials, and the chance of that is slim. When these tenets are at risk, social movements arise to demand their realization. Age limits are irrelevant to these objectives.