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Old 05-26-2007, 06:56 PM  
notabook
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
The 12th Amendment is pretty clear cut. No ambiguity about it. Besides the reason why you have a VP is in case the President dies or is otherwise unable to continue on as President and thus the VP then becomes President. Since Bill Clinton can't be President what would be the point of making him VP?
Well that's where there is a different school of thought because of the 22nd ammendment, which it states:

"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.

Section. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress."


It says "elected". In case of the president dying/incapacitated, is the vice president elected to become president? Or is he just merely serving or appointed to the presidency, rather than being elected? That's where it becomes confusing and it would probably take the courts to decide.



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You work on the internet you know to promote things on the internet. If you think he's so great why not make people more aware of him with your skills in internet promotion.
ROFL.. yeah America voting in a half beaner, like that’ll happen in this century.
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