Before you say fat chance just give into my though process. The 22nd amendment says a person can not be elected to the office more than twice or having served more than two years as acting president can only be elected once more(2 terms)
Hypothetically, we have a president that served 2 terms and now runs as a VP. The newly elected president suffers a misfortune, thus promoting the VP to president (3rd term)
I cannot find anything that says that situation can't happen. The amendment only states two ELECTED terms.
Thanks for pondering with me.
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Before you say fat chance just give into my though process. The 22nd amendment says a person can not be elected to the office more than twice or having served more than two years as acting president can only be elected once more(2 terms)
Hypothetically, we have a president that served 2 terms and now runs as a VP. The newly elected president suffers a misfortune, thus promoting the VP to president (3rd term)
I cannot find anything that says that situation can't happen. The amendment only states two ELECTED terms.
Thanks for pondering with me.
Sounds like you just got a job in Barack's cabinet.
What you say is hypothetically possible under the Constitution, as amended by the 22nd Amendment:
"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."
There is argument among Constitutional scholars as to whether a former president who completed two terms would be eligible to serve a third term as President under the conditions you postulate, Never_Evil. There is no precedent to guide us. FDR is the only President to have served more than two terms, and he was elected to his third and fourth terms before the 22nd Amendment was ratified.
But as I see it, and so do some of the scholars: yes, an ex-President who was elected Vice President and sworn in as such, and who was elevated to the Presidency by the death or incapacity of the duly elected and sworn President, could serve out the remainder of the duly elected President's term. However, he would not be eligible to run for reelection under the 22nd Amendment rules. The 22nd is very clear about that.
The likelihood of this happening is excessively remote. Thank the Lord for small favors, for it means once we get rid of Bobo, he is G-O-N-E. There is a goal worth working for!
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