If a president dies during his second year in office and vice president assumes the presidency, what is the maxium amount of years the former vice president can hold office as president?
2006-09-23 07:49:50 · 11 answers · asked by Marian 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
2 years?
2006-09-23 07:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by ★HigHTƹcH★ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Vice President finishes off the President's term as the new President.
2006-09-23 16:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by 1/6,833,020,409 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10
2006-09-23 14:58:23 · answer #3 · answered by miksterkhan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maximum 10 years, if he (or she) is re-elected twice afterwards.
AMENDMENT XXII
Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.
Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for *more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President* shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
2006-09-23 14:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by Eric 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The remainder of the dead presidents term. So 2 years. He is then eligible to run for the office if he so desires.
2006-09-23 14:57:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He can serve out the remainder of his predecessors term and then be elected for two more full terms. If a president dies on his first day, the VP could serve 4 years on that term and 8 more years on his own.
2006-09-23 14:58:37 · answer #6 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2 years is the key. If the VP serves more than 2 years of the previous Prez's term, he (or she in the future) can only serve 1 term of their own. (Example: Harry Truman)
If it is less than 2 years, they can serve 2 terms of their own.(Example: Gerald Ford is eligible for another term, having served 1 of his own, and 15 months of Nixon's second term.
So to answer your question, less than 2: six years
more than 2: 10 years
2006-09-23 15:00:48 · answer #7 · answered by Ron K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Six years, if re-elected after his first two year term.
2006-09-23 14:55:11 · answer #8 · answered by DrB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he would go up for election once the original tenure for the presidency has expired.
2006-09-23 14:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by spyderman1212 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think 2.
2006-09-23 14:51:57 · answer #10 · answered by Ruby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋