Can Bill Clinton run as Vice President?

Question

I know he's is termed out for President, But Im really not sure if he can run for Vice.

Answer 1

The 22nd Amendment states the following:

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 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.

Remember, if the Presicent becomes unable to fill the office, then the VICE PRESIDENT sits in, so I would think that the answer to your question is NO. Bill Clinton could run for Veep, but I don't think he would be able to assume the office based on the fact that he can no longer occupy the Presidency.

Answer 2

Yes, Bill Clinton could run as Hillary s Vice-Presidential running mate. Assuming Bill maintained his continuous residency in the U.S., he would meet all the Constitutional eligibility requirements for being President (age, "natural born" citizenship, etc.). Therefore, Bill could run for Vice-President. Although Bill could not be elected to the Presidency again, he could become President without an election by succeeding Hillary if she died or otherwise couldn t complete her term. Since the Constitution (i.e., the 22nd Amendment) only prohibits someone from being elected President more than twice, Bill s ascension to the Presidency without an election would not be unconstitutional.

Answer 3

The 22nd amendment would prohibit this. Any person serving 2 terms can not hold office again. In the case of death or severe illness, the vice president takes office & this would violate the 22nd admendment. See there is a God.

Answer 4

First, VP candidates do not run for office outright, they are chosen as running mates by the candidate for president. Second, no he cannot be VP. He has served two full terms as president and if the president under which he would be serving as VP were unable to execute the office of president, that would mean the VP would have to fill the office and that make Clinton ineligible.

Answer 5

He can run for any position except president. He never will though because he had the highest ranking position in the USA. Why would he want to go backwards?

Answer 6

As much as I would like to say yes, I'm afraid the answer is no.Because he is ineligible to hold the office of president, if chosen as vice-president then he would be next in line. So by voting him in as vice pres, you would in effect be voting him into a position to fill a job he is ineligible for. Sorry

Answer 7

and he could become 1st husband as well. God help you Republicans 'cause we won't. The Constitution says he cannot be elected to more than 2 terms, it says nothing about being appointed because of death of a president.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yes, a President who has served two terms can later become the Vice President. In fact, a person who has already served two terms as President (through succession) could be ELECTED to another term as President - and after serving that term could serve additional terms as President, through the process of succession.
(At first glance, it may seem that a person who succeeded to the Presidency would never serve a FULL four-year term, since the idea of “succession” seems to apply to a sitting President – i.e., the replacement of a person who had already served a portion of a Presidential term. However, a Vice Presidential candidate could succeed to a FULL four-year term of a President-Elect who died after the Electoral College vote but prior to Inauguration Day. (See, e.g., U.S. Constitution, 20th Amendment, Section 3.))
The important fact to remember here (which, apparently, most of the people who have answered this question have NOT remembered) is that there is more than one way to become President: 1) through an ELECTION, or 2) through SUCCESSION. The 22nd Amendment only puts a limit on the number of times a person can be ELECTED as President; it does not place any limit whatsoever on the number of times a person could become President through SUCCESSION. In fact, the 22nd Amendment specifically recognizes the fact that someone could have become President through succession, since it limits a person who has succeeded to the Presidency to only one subsequent election to the Presidency if that person had served more than half (two years) of the previous President’s term. If the successor President had served less than two years of the previous President’s term, the successor President could subsequently be elected President twice. But, the amendment DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING about limiting the time served BY SUCCESSION of the person who had succeeded to the Presidency in the first place.
In other words, the 22nd Amendment doesn’t limit the number of times a “successor” President could subsequently succeed to the Presidency, e.g., by being someone else’s Vice President and having that other President also die in office. Admittedly, the possibility that someone could succeed to the Presidency more than once (i.e., under two different Presidents who died in office or otherwise had to relinquish their office) may be far-fetched. But, I’m just answering the question as it has been presented here: whether the possibility exists that someone who had been President could later serve as Vice President. I’m not saying that it is ever realistically going to happen. And please don’t give me the argument that the “intent” of the 22nd Amendment was to place a maximum on the number of years someone could possibly be the President or Vice President. First, most people don’t understand that the word “elected” in the 22nd Amendment refers to the Electoral College election, which occurs in December, and not the “popular vote” election by the American people, which occurs in November. Second, most people also don’t realize that the 12th Amendment requires that the election of a Vice President in the Electoral College is a completely separate election than the election of the President in the Electoral College. Thus, there is no basis to any argument that the 22nd Amendment also limits Vice Presidential terms or elections, since neither are mentioned in the amendment - and Congress certainly knew when it drafted the 22nd Amendment that the elections of President and Vice President were separate elections. Third, any argument about the “intent” of the 22nd Amendment is JUNK! If the purpose of the 22nd Amendment was to place an absolute limit on the number of years someone could be President or Vice President, it would have said so. (For example, “NO PERSON SHALL SERVE IN THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT MORE THAN TEN YEARS DURING THEIR LIFETIME, AND NO PERSON MAY BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OR VICE-PRESIDENT, OR SUCCEED TO THE PRESIDENCY, IF DURING THE TERM FOR WHICH THEY WERE ELECTED, OR IN WHICH THEY MIGHT SERVE AS PRESIDENT, THE AFOREMENTIONED TEN-YEAR MAXIMUM SERVICE LIMIT COULD BE REACHED.”) BUT, IT DIDN’T! Thus, not only could a former President serve as Vice President, but a former President could again serve as President through SUCCESSION, whether or not he/she had previously been elected to the Presidency the maximum number of times allowed by the 22nd Amendment.
Now, here’s MY question: It seems clear that, to avoid any controversy, Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have her husband, Bill Clinton, as her V.P. running mate if she became the Democratic Presidential nominee, even if it was clear that Bill could succeed to the Presidency (if necessary). However, let’s assume that Hillary wins the Presidency and it is now “safe” to get Bill involved, if she wants to. Could Hillary appoint Bill to a Cabinet post, such as Secretary of State? [Hint: The answer is NOT in the 12th or 22nd Amendments.]

Answer 10

yes he can run for vice.