Can Bill Clinton run for President again?

Answer 1

According to Scott Gant (a partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Washington), and Bruce Peabody (an assistant professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J.), YES HE CAN. to wit:

The only serious question about the constitutionality of Clinton assuming the vice presidency relates to the interplay of the Constitution's 12th and 22nd Amendments.

The 12th Amendment was ratified following the election of 1800, which produced sustained electoral uncertainty after Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, Jefferson's designated vice president, received the same number of electoral votes. The election was sent to the House of Representatives, which took 36 ballots to select Jefferson. The 12th Amendment thereafter required that electoral votes be cast separately for president and vice president, and specified that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States."

A century and a half later, the states ratified the 22nd Amendment, largely as a response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four electoral victories. The amendment bars individuals from being "elected to the office of the president more than twice."

The 22nd Amendment is often described as prohibiting an already twice-elected president, such as Clinton, from again serving as president. But the text of the amendment suggests otherwise. In preventing individuals from being elected to the presidency more than twice, the amendment does not preclude a former president from again assuming the presidency by means other than election, including succession from the vice presidency. If this view is correct, then Clinton is not "constitutionally ineligible to the office of president," and is not barred by the 12th Amendment from being elected vice president.

Thus, while there will be obvious howling from the Right, there is a technical loophole that I think should be exploited should Bill choose to jump back in. The country certainly wants him: according to a recent poll conducted for CNN, respondents favored Mr. Clinton over President Bush on a variety of issues, including policy areas traditionally viewed as GOP strongholds. By a wide margin, those surveyed indicated that Clinton did a better job managing the economy and handling foreign affairs and taxes.
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All of you nay sayers overlooked the simple expedient of Clinton running as Vice Pres and possibly assuming office should the need arise. Completely different kettle of fish altogether than electing him President again.......not to mention the fact that obviously another term at this point would NOT be consecutive and thus not breaching the Constitution.

Answer 2

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Can Bill Clinton run for President again?

Answer 3

No, there is the 22nd Amendment in the 50's after Franklin Roosevelt's fourth election to office when everyone recognized that serving so many terms under the wrong circumstances (the Cold War began between the Capitalist countries vs. the Communist countries) could be a hindrance to the proper operation of the separation of powers, essentially showing certain characteristics of a dictatorship.

Answer 4

No.

Before 1951, the President could serve for as many terms as he wanted. After two terms as President, George Washington chose not to run again. All other Presidents followed his example until Franklin D. Roosevelt successfully ran for office four times. He, however, did not complete his fourth term of office because he died in 1945. Six years later, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment, which limits Presidents to two terms.


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Answer 5

No, you can only be elected two times to the office, and you can serve no more than 10 years (possible because if you ascend to office from VP, then get elected within 2 years, you can run once more in another 4).

p.s. Who are all these jokers here who think that the Constitution stipulates CONSECUTIVE terms? No such language, folks.

Answer 6

I wish he could, but the Constitution only allows two terms. Supposedly, he can run as Vice President, though. I think he is having a much better effect in the private foundation sector, though.

23rd Amendment:
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 the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the 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.

Answer 7

No, Presidents can only serve two elected terms. Bill was reelected and can't serve again.

Answer 8

No,only two terms ..... and a good thing...nothing against Clinton..he was a good President....but it keeps politicians in check.

Answer 9

Uh-uhn, no!

Shoot, if he was in the House, however, I'll bet this war would be over by now, or at least HE'D bring home the troops. I figured Bush should not be in!

Clinton would've done a better job, and his affair was none of our business, so I can understand why he perjure himself! None of us everyday people would have our trial for adultery on TV.

Answer 10

No, because of the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution:

"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 the President more than once."

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am22.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution