Can a two term president run for Vice President?
Can a two term president run for Vice President the next election and if he does can he presume office if anything happens to the president he's serving under or does that break federal law?
Can a two term president run for Vice President the next election and if he does can he presume office if anything happens to the president he's serving under or does that break federal law?
Jeff D
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I say no, per the 12th Amendment: "..no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States" and a two-term President is Constitutionally ineligible per the 22nd Amendment.
MR. MUSIC
I did not see anywhere which used the term "VICE PRESIDENT" It only states "President" But you will then raise the red flag of conflict of interest. If Hillary Clinton won the 2014 Presidency and wanted her Husband to be Vice president I don't see why he cant hold that office but there will be a huge cloud of a Conflict since he has already served 2 terms. I have nor has anyone every seen a 2 term President serve as vice but hey this is the U.S. anything can happen..I guess
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It's a good question. I don't know many Presidents who would want to be VP after two terms as President, but since he/she would be ineligible to be President, I don't believe that person could run for VP. You can't have a VP who is not eligible to be President.
You also need to remember that until 1947 with the passage of the 22nd Amendment, there was no limit on how many terms a President could serve.
Edit: Elana, let's have some sense and assume no one would run for Vice President if he/she couldn't actually serve in that office.
James E Lewis AKA choteau
No, because the limits paced on the the VP is that if anything happens to the President the VP would become President, and the 22nd amendment to the constitution says no person can serve more than 2 terms.
"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."
Jobobobay
Yes, a two term President can run for Vice President. Some of the people who have answered the question otherwise should learn how to read. The 22nd Amendment does not contain "term limits," it only contains "election limits." A two term President that had been already been elected twice could not be ELECTED President again, but that person could SUCCEED to the Presidency if that person was Vice President and President died or otherwise had to relinquish the Presidency.