Can a president who has served 2 terms later become a Vice, does the Constitution allow ?

Question

Someone asked who Hillary may pick as her running mate if she gets the democratic nomination and I thought perhaps Bill except if the constitution wouldnt allow.Someone said she wonders who else can stand her besides Bill.
As for Obama, Oprah has already made it known she wouldnt accept that demotion, so who may he choose as a running mate?
Edwards has a good chance as well, any idea who he might pick as VP?

Answer 1

The key to this question is a combination of the 22nd amendment (which prohibits Bill Clinton or George W. Bush from being elected again) and the requirements set forth in Article II Section I of the US Constitution, which say that a vice-presidential candidate must fulfill the requirements to be elected president. Since Bill Clinton and George W. Bush do not fulfill the requirements to become president since they were both already elected to two terms, neither can later become a vice-president.

So the answer is no.

Answer 2

Yes, a President who has served two terms can later become a Vice President. In fact, a person who has already served two terms as President (through succession) could BE ELECTED to another term - and after serving that term could serve additional terms as President, through the process of succession! (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.) The important fact to remember here (which, apparently, most of the people who 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 limit the number of times the 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. If the purpose of the 22nd Amendment was to place an absolute limit on the number of years someone could be President, it would have said so. But, it didn t.

Answer 3

He cannot run, as others have mentioned, due to the 22nd Amendment in correlation with the 12th Amendment, but I do thing Gore or Richardson may get tapped for VP duties. Either one would make a great VP for their party, and Gore would be an option as he never served as President, therefore would not be banned from this by said Amendments.

Answer 4

EDIT:

I had to ask my own question to figure this one out.
According to the 22nd Amendment, "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."

So Bill is out and if any VP steps up to President, that person can only run for 1 more term if he served for 2 or more years of the previous 4 year term.

Answer 5

Actually the Constitution specifically prohibits it, I am disappointed in some of your answers. It states " No one who is ineligable to be President can serve as vice President". It is in the 12th Amendment, and reads like this " But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of the President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States". Ergo, any 2 term,or part there of, previous President , can not be VP.

Answer 6

BILL CLINTON CAN NOT BE VP!!!!!!! IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!!

I am sooooooooo sick of people asking this question. A president can only serve 2 terms or a max. of 8 years. It is not 2 FULL terms, it is 2 terms, period.

If Bill was VP with Hillary, and she was killed, Bill would then be president. He can't be president again. Because of this fact, Bill can't be VP.

I don't care about the others since they are all socialists!

Answer 7

I have no idea who any of the candidates might pick (none of them have consulted with me). The constitution does not prohibit a person that has been president for two terms from being vice president. The prohibition is they can not be elected president once they have severed two terms (or one and a half terms)

Answer 8

Whoever is nominated by the Democrats will pick Bill Richardson to be VP.

No one is qualified to be VP who is not qualified to be President, and as a two-term President, Bill Clinton is no longer allowed to be President, so he cannot be Vice President either.

Answer 9

To Michelle C. above.

Al Gore wrote "An Assault on Reason". I know you must be a Republican because you cannot even spell "Reason" let alone utilize it.

No. Bill cannot become a VP.

Answer 10

The gratefully the answer is No. I am already wearing down due to the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Maybe Clinton rotation. I don't think we need Bill or George again.