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by Annachie » Sat Mar 07, 2020 10:18 pm | |
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Section one of Amendment 22 doesn't aply because a Vice President assumes the office if the sitting President leaves it early, he's not elected to it.
Ah, I hear you say. Being elected VP is the same thing. One, it isn't. Two, Gerald Ford. It's functionally the same if both the President and Vice President were dead and Obama was the Speaker of the House. (I'm not sure he could be, but it will do for the example) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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by edgeworthy » Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:47 pm | |
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Strictly speaking there is no precedent preventing Obama from becoming Speaker of the House. Only one President has been elected to the House after his term of office, John Quincy Adams in 1830, so technically yes he could? |
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by Michael Everett » Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:40 am | |
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by Eyal » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:27 am | |
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Section 1 would prevent him from being elected into office. But at least going by the bare text, it would not prevent him from being VP and then serving out the remainder of a vacating President's term. |
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by smr » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:35 am | |
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Annachie sometimes you can be an idiot and this is one of those times. Cheers mate!
The Vice President must be to serve 1 entire term as President. In this instance, Barrack can not serve as VP because he does not meet the requirements. However, George Bush if he were alive would b eligible to serve as VP because he only served 1 term as President and he still has 6 more years of eligibility as President. An individual may mot serve more than 10 years as President.
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by doug941 » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:50 am | |
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Very much a NON-Freudian NON-slip. I am distantly to very distantly related to a number of former Presidents and wouldn't want to have met any of them. Winston Churchill was correct in his quote: "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" The sad part is there really isn't a better form of governance outside of fiction. The novel "The Unbeheaded King" makes me sigh at times. |
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by Annachie » Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:11 am | |
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I'm taking it from that little spiel that not only have you not read it, that you have no intention too.
The exact text has been quoted to you and you can still do nothing by spout propaganda. You may be right, BUT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE SOME JUSTIFICATION. Some small bit of reasoning that is based on the US Constitution. Or, in a pinch, the writings of those who drafted the two amendments, or voted on them. I say two, but really any aplicable clause, amendment, or law. Though laws can be changed so are of lesser relevence in this discussiin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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by n7axw » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:41 am | |
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I don't think you can reduce this to the bare text. Being elected to two terms and serving two terms in this context mean the same thing, the exception being for a vice-president who serves less than two years of his predecessor's term. In short, Obama is not eligible to serve under any of the circumstances that currently apply. The intent of the amendment is quite clear which the courts would follow. Don - When any group seeks political power in God's name, both religion and politics are instantly corrupted.
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by doug941 » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:17 pm | |
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Not to quibble, but when you say "the writings of those who drafted the two amendments" you should probably know that before the 22nd was ratified, there were some 200 attempts to term limit the President by Constitutional Amendments. If fact, it is interesting reading seeing the discussions in the Constitutional Convention of just what the President's powers and limitations were to have been. At one time, the talk was of an Executive selected by Congress with a lifetime term. THAT would have short-circuited the 22nd! |
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by doug941 » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:20 pm | |
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Very much a NON-Freudian NON-slip. I am distantly to very distantly related to a number of former Presidents and wouldn't want to have met any of them. Winston Churchill was correct in his quote: "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" The sad part is there really isn't a better form of governance outside of fiction. The novel "The Unbeheaded King" makes me sigh at times.[/quote] I really should edit my "Not want" statement. Washington and Madison are two I would have liked to meet. It's the ones after that I have issues with, even Grant. Meet the general but not the President. |
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