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To: Republican Red
U.S. CONSTITUTION:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Of course, the Constitution never says what it says. And it usually says what it doesn't say.
88 posted on 06/04/2004 5:17:02 PM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: gitmo

Forget trying to explain the Constitution to a foaming at the mouth Liberal. The Constitution is like a road block to the Left, they'll always find their way to a detour and go around the road block.


93 posted on 06/05/2004 12:47:21 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
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To: gitmo
U.S. CONSTITUTION: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Could it depend also on how one interpretes the word "ineligible"? If "ineligible" means "not able to be chosen, (as the 1913 Websters dictionary defined it, for example), then Clinton would be "ineligible" in any event. The only way to be chosen President is to be elected. One can become president if the president died, having been chosen as vice-president - but that is not a choice or chosing process. Am I saying that clearly? In other words, the only way to be chosen as President is to be elected. So if eligible = choose-able, then Bill is ineligible because no one could in any event directly choose him as for the office.

96 posted on 06/05/2004 1:16:22 AM PDT by dano1
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