To: Barack Obama, President Of the United States
4 more years is possible lol not just 2
https://www.quora.com/Could-Barack-Obama-be-elected-Vice-President-in-2016# lol wanna be Vice President for a day? Oh and 2 ways to win! So here's the text of Section I of the 22nd Amendment:
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.
The first sentence is the important one here, because Harry Truman hasn't been POTUS for a while now. The point here is that the 22nd Amendment specifically stipulates the number of times a person can be elected President, not the number of years someone can serve as President. By this logic, if Obama were the VP candidate for the Democrats in 2016 and the Presidential candidate were to resign immediately after taking office, Obama could theoretically serve as President for twelve years. This is a pretty flagrant abuse of the spirit of the law, but it does keep to the letter fairly well.
Or at least, it would if not for the 12th Amendment, the final sentence of which is:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
This has led to some questions with regards to whether or not this would bar a former two-term President from running for Vice President. On the one hand, a former two-term President should fulfill all eligibility requirements to serve as President. On the other hand, such a person would not be eligible to be elected to the position, which is arguably part of being eligible. In other words, thanks to the non-matching wording of the amendments, there's ambiguity as to whether or not such a run would be legal.
In other words, if Obama did run as the VP candidate, there would be a lawsuit, it would go to the Supreme Court, and they'd figure this whole mess out. As this would be a gigantic distraction from the campaign, no political party would ever think of trying this, even leaving aside the possibility of losing the suit.
Another similar question that's somewhat easier to answer is this: let's say a two-term President gets elected to the House of Representatives becomes Speaker of the House.[1] The President and Vice President get rendered unfit to govern. Does our former President get the top job again? Short answer: yes. He was perfectly allowed to run for the House seat and did not have to be elected to get into the White House a third time. It's a scenario beyond unlikely to actually occur, but it could theoretically happen.
We both know when a law is in question by all the person that brings this question to light wins this debate.
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.
The first sentence is the important one here, because Harry Truman hasn't been POTUS for a while now. The point here is that the 22nd Amendment specifically stipulates the number of times a person can be elected President, not the number of years someone can serve as President. By this logic, if Obama were the VP candidate for the Democrats in 2016 and the Presidential candidate were to resign immediately after taking office, Obama could theoretically serve as President for twelve years. This is a pretty flagrant abuse of the spirit of the law, but it does keep to the letter fairly well.
Or at least, it would if not for the 12th Amendment, the final sentence of which is:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
This has led to some questions with regards to whether or not this would bar a former two-term President from running for Vice President. On the one hand, a former two-term President should fulfill all eligibility requirements to serve as President. On the other hand, such a person would not be eligible to be elected to the position, which is arguably part of being eligible. In other words, thanks to the non-matching wording of the amendments, there's ambiguity as to whether or not such a run would be legal.
In other words, if Obama did run as the VP candidate, there would be a lawsuit, it would go to the Supreme Court, and they'd figure this whole mess out. As this would be a gigantic distraction from the campaign, no political party would ever think of trying this, even leaving aside the possibility of losing the suit.
Another similar question that's somewhat easier to answer is this: let's say a two-term President gets elected to the House of Representatives becomes Speaker of the House.[1] The President and Vice President get rendered unfit to govern. Does our former President get the top job again? Short answer: yes. He was perfectly allowed to run for the House seat and did not have to be elected to get into the White House a third time. It's a scenario beyond unlikely to actually occur, but it could theoretically happen.
We both know when a law is in question by all the person that brings this question to light wins this debate.
Why is this important?
This is just good information for our leader to have. I would think he is the only one that should see this. I hope that will be respected.