2007-01-21 10:18:43 · 12 answers · asked by steve c 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
No because as VP, he could wind up as President if the President died and Clinton has already served the maximum number of terms he is allowed to serve under the Constitution
2007-01-21 10:25:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The 12th amendment to the US Constitution ends with the following sentence: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. That means the real question is: Is Bill Clinton eligible to be President again. The 22nd Amendment states: No person shall be elected to the office of 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 more than once. This does nott EXPLICITLY prevent Bill Clinton from SERVING as President, only form being ELECTED. I suspect that if the question was presented to the Supreme Court, they would INTERPRET the two amendments to prevent him from being Vice-President.
2007-01-21 19:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Although it is an intriguing his question has been answered 109 times in the past several months in this forum. Bottom line: the 22nd constitutional amendment prohibits anyone who is ineligible to become President to serve as Vice President.
2007-01-22 23:13:29 · answer #3 · answered by tippy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he can, but he cannot legally rise to the position of President is something were to happen to the President he would be elected with. This has never happened, where we would have a V.P. but no President, and Congress would have to define what would happen in this circumstance BEFORE this hypothetical situation would happen.
I don't believe that former President Clinton would want to be V.P., however, so no one will have to worry about this now.
2007-01-21 19:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by amg503 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but if something happened to the president he could only be President for two more years and then he would have to resign from the office. Someone can only be ELECTED to the Office of President twice but they can be the president for a total of 10 years.
2007-01-21 18:25:23 · answer #5 · answered by O G 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
legally, yes he can. but america would not let it happen. and besides, the vice president is the most useless position ever. the only duty the vp has is breaking a tie in the senate, which rarely happens, anyways.
2007-01-21 18:22:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
no because then he'd end up as president if something happened to the president and he is barred by law of holding that position again as he served 2 terms
2007-01-21 18:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by singledad 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yes, even though he was president he can still be named vice president
2007-01-21 18:22:37 · answer #8 · answered by lori k 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Constitution does not permit it.......he served twice, the max allowed......you have to qualify for the office to serve....he can't be President....and VP office is the spare
2007-01-21 18:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan L 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, he will just be the first lady.
2007-01-21 18:36:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋