Could Bill Clinton be selected as Vice President under the guidelines of Amendment 22?

Answer 1

No. The primary role of Vice President is to replace the President permanently or temporarily when the President can no longer fulfill their job.

There's a line of succession running through cabinet members on down to a couple members of Congress and you can just skip a link in the chain where the person filling the job is ineligible to be President, but they have a primary job completely different than succeeding the President. Having an ineligible person as Vice President would be the equivalent of having no Vice President at all.

Edit: A. Mercer overlooked the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (since revised) which effectively implemented the 22nd Amendment.

The act establishes the entire line of succession to account for instances where neither the President nor the Vice-President are capable of serving. The applicable text:

1) Subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section shall apply only to such officers as are eligible to the office of President under the Constitution. Subsection (d) of this section shall apply only to officers appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, prior to the time of the death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, of the President pro tempore, and only to officers not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office of President devolve upon them.

Amendment 22 modified the requirements for President and applies to the Presidential Succession Act, as well.

There might be some dispute about whether Bill Clinton could be VP, but there's no dispute that he couldn't become President via succession.

Answer 2

The amendment prohibits the person from being elected to president for more than two terms. It does not prohibit the person from being elected as VP. It does not even prohibit the person from taking office as president from VP if the prior president leaves office.

"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 [a term is four years] 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. "

As the amendment is written, Bill Clinton could conceivably become president again under the right circumstances. I doubt it would ever happen though.

Answer 3

No. Its not explicit in the language of the Ammendment. However, a Vice-President must be able to assume office in the event that the President cannot carry ouut his or his duties. That is the primary function of the Vice president. Since Bill Clinton cannot take office asPresindent again under the 22nd, he cannot fufill that primary duty as VP--and so is not eligible to serve in that role.

Answer 4

Yes, but under a few conditions. A President may serve only two terms or a total of 10 years.

If the VP resigned or died over 2 years into the current President's term, he could be appointed VP by the house. That is the only scenario that I could see being legal.

He could not, however, run and be elected VP for a four year term.

Answer 5

From my reading of the Consitution and the Amendments,

It would be legal.

The Amendment clearly states, no one can be elected to the office of President more than twice.

The office of Vice President, is clearly a separate office.

But then you also have to factor in the intent of the Amendment.

And the intent of the amendment clearly was that no one would ever serve more than two terms as President.

So, it would end up before the USSC and the court would have to issue a ruling, on the intent of the law.

Answer 6

No

He has already said in his opinion that would be illegal


the question doesnt matter, Clinton himself would not try it as he thinks it is unconstitutional.

Answer 7

NO!!!
Bill can NOT be elected 1st b*t*h !!!

Answer 8

NO!