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To: Congressman Billybob
The answer is a slam dunk. It is no.

I disagree. The 22nd Amendment doesn't prevent anyone from becoming President more than twice; it bars them from being elected more than twice:

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. . . .

Since he wouldn't be elected President a third time, he wouldn't be in violation of the Constitution.

32 posted on 05/07/2002 3:43:54 PM PDT by Iota
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To: Iota
You may disagree, but the Constitution saysyou are dead wrong. Read the 12th Amendment. No one can run for Vice President who is not qualified to be President. That shuts off the loophole you're blithering about that he wouldn't "run" for President, but just get bumped up. HE CAN'T RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT, EITHER.

Have you got it now?

36 posted on 05/07/2002 5:19:32 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
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