12th Amendment: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
According to this, the appointed VP would need to be eligible to be the President. So, we have to understand Presidential eligibility; we get that from the 22nd Amendment.
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.”
By serving 2 full terms as President, that individual is constitutionally ineligible to be President again, and therefore also ineligible to be appointed as Vice President.
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By serving 2 full terms as President, that individual is constitutionally ineligible to be President again, and therefore also ineligible to be appointed as Vice President.
But what about Micheal Scott from Dunder Mifflin Paper company?
“So, we have to understand Presidential eligibility; we get that from the 22nd Amendment.”
Disagree. The 22nd amendment deals with term limits on elected presidents.
Article 2 deals with eligibility (The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.).
This has got to be THE stupidest thread in the history of FR, and posted be THE most uneducated, most naive, silliest poster of all times and it needs to be REMOVED! It makes the threads on DU look as though they were posted by geniuses.
Thank you for the post! I hadn’t thought about the 12A. But there it is, and it talks about eligibility. The 12A is so clear that I think it would close the loophole in the 22A.
Yet I wonder why the writers of the 22A couldn’t have been more precise. Maybe they thought the 12A covered all that.
Anyway, I’ll still give the original poster a pass. She made a fair argument based on the 22A, forgetting about the 12A. It was worth a discussion, and certainly worth pointing out that the 12A settled the issue.