Question for U.S (and Brogan I guess) members

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Jethro

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With the U.S Pres sideshow coming down to Hils v the Don can HC choose Bill as her running mate?

I've got my fingers cross Trump chooses Sarah Palin as his running mate, talk about laugh, would be getting the popcorn in to see what lunacy would result from that political circus.
 
No the law clearly states the number of times someone can be elected to the office of the president. This includes the vice president.
 
No the law clearly states the number of times someone can be elected to the office of the president. This includes the vice president.

Partially incorrect. 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.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.​

The language in the 22nd amendment specifically addresses the President. It does however not address the Vice-President.

There is debate on whether the 12th Amendment works in conjunction with the 22nd amendment, specifically the following language:

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.​

The Constitution talks a lot about eligibility and qualifications, but it never specifically addressed a two-term President in the 12th and 22nd amendments. Frankly, it has never been tested.
 
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