Can Bill Clinton run on Hillary's ticket as VP?

Answer 1

No, he cannot. Anyone who says he can or can run for president simply doesn't know what they're talking about. Anyone on the ticket for Vice President must be eligible for the Presidency since they are first in line should anything happen to the President.

The 22nd amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for Bill Clinton, having served 2 full terms in office, to hold the office again. It was passed in 1947, and ratified in 1951. Had this amendment existed 20 years earlier, then FDR could not have been elected for 4 terms as he was, but prior to 1947, there was no prohibition against it.

EDIT: People who are saying 10 years have it backwards. The less than two years in someone else's elected office have to be prior to the second election. The language of the 22th amendment clearly state that having served 2 years of another's office and 1 term of your own, you are then ineligible for election. Again, the 12th amendment states that anyone ineligible for election as president is therefore ineligible for election as vice president.

One quick example, the longest a person could be president is succeeding an elected president with less than two years remaining in office. If that person is then elected twice, they can serve up to 10 years. However, if they assumed the presidency with more than 2 years remaining, then they will only be eligible for one election as president.

Answer 2

***Interestingly enough, there is no prohibition from Bill Clinton occupying the VP position. However -- he can never become President again as long as the 22nd amendment is in force. That means if something happened to Hillary, the Speaker of the House would become President (because the VP would be ineligible). There are no Constitutional prohibitions on holding the VP's office for more than two terms; only the Presidency has that restriction.***

Edit: My mistake -- the above paragraph is wrong. The 12th amendment states that anyone who cannot hold the office of President cannot hold the office of Vice President.

Realistically, I doubt that Bill would run for VP anyway.

Answer 3

honestly Hillary Clinton might want to pick bill Clinton as her operating mate. The twenty second modification would not limit someone from being elected Vice-President, even with if that man or woman had two times been elected President. If bill became President because of Hillary's lack of existence, he might want to have succeeded to the Presidency, he does no longer were elected, and succeeding to the Presidency isn't prohibited by technique of the twenty second modification. One difficulty bill and Hillary might want to face is in the adventure that they were both voters of an same state, an elector in that state might want to in user-friendly words vote for one among them, pursuant to the 12th modification. With lengthy island's tremendous quantity of electoral votes (I talked about someplace it become 31), they could be operating a probability in the adventure that they were both lengthy island voters on the time of the election.

Answer 4

No. According to the 22nd Amendment, no person who served two terms or ten years as President shall be elected as President, and according to Article 2, all rules appplying to the President also affect the VP.

Answer 5

The Constitition specifies that a Vice President must fulfil the Constitutional requirements for the President in order to qualify. Since Clinton served two terms and is no longer Constitutionally able to be President, he is not able to be Vice-President either.

Answer 6

Yes, but I don't think he would want to do that. He had 8 stressful years in the White House and I don't think he wants another 8! But then again, if Hillary wins he'll still live in the White House even if he doesn't run as VP. LOL

Answer 7

Bill clinton could never run for president again but he could run for vice president,however not with Hilary because its family and it became unconstitutional after the kennedy era.

Answer 8

I bet not. The VP is one step away from the Presidency. That is an office he can not occupy again.

Answer 9

Yes, but slow down Dale Earnhardt, Jr. They are a long way to the White House. People will vote for them but I feel more will not. This might be a case where if they win the White House, they will do it by the Electoral College. Then the Dems will flip flop on their opinion on the Electoral College thing... It's OK if that works for them but it is wrong if it works for someone else...

Answer 10

isnt there a 10 year term limit for presidnet?
so he could be pres for 2 years more in the case of bein vp, and the pres dying.

If I remember right.