Suppose President Bush since he has already been elected twice and put in office twice can he then run with a Presidential candidate and be elected as a Vice President?
2006-10-08 05:08:13 · 7 answers · asked by Laura Ann 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The 22 amendment to the US constitution limits a person from being elected to the office of President more than twice. It also prevents any one who has served more than 2 years of a term to which some other person was elected from being elected more than once.
Interestingly, it does NOT say that a former President may not be elected as Vice President. It also does not specifically limit them from SERVING as President if they should be elected as Vice President and the President should not complete their term.
I suspect the courts would decide the intent of the amendment would prevent a person who could not be elected President from being elected as Vice President. The actual language of the constitution does not specifically prohibit it as far as I can tell.
2006-10-08 14:18:43 · answer #1 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, we passed the amendment with nothing on the limits of doing both or even being Vice-President for life. That actually might be a good idea, the Vice-President would be the person everyone has heard of and would hopefully like and that would get each successive President elected.
2006-10-08 05:47:06 · answer #2 · answered by cj k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Once a person has been President for two terms they can not be Vice President.
This is specified in the 12th Ammendment of the U.S. Constitution:
"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
and, in the 22nd Ammendment:
"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."
The language of this would imply that a person who only served as President for 1 term (or 1.5 terms, 6 yrs, if accending to the presidency via the 22nd Ammendment) would be eligible for the Vice Presidency.
So, G. H. W. Bush could become Vice President again, and then serve as President again; or he could become President again (without being VP first), but then could not be VP again after the 2nd Presidential term.
Bill Clinton could not serve as Vice President since he is no longer eligible to be President (although some believe that he may become the "First Gentleman" here in a few years ;-)
Even if G.W.Bush were to resign today, he would be inelible for either because he has been elected twice, even though he has not yet served over half of his second term.
2006-10-08 09:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by jjbone_99 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, absolutely not. The 22nd Amendment prevents it. No person may serve as President for 10 years or for two elected terms. If someone has been President for 2 terms already, they are inelgible to run as a Vice Presidential candidate.
2006-10-08 17:48:16 · answer #4 · answered by hawk79 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know... that actually seems like kind of a hard question to answer although I'm tired yet. I did find out that many Vice-presidents served in lesser offices after being Vice-presidents. I'll try and come back to this later if I remember and you haven't gotten and answer, OK?
2006-10-08 05:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by haleysname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that can never happen becus u cant be a king then go back to bein a slave
2006-10-08 05:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not clear
2006-10-08 09:43:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋