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The Rat
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Canada
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 Posted - 11/04/2012 : 07:00:22
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I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
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Posted - 11/04/2012 : 08:25:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served? |
Good question. No. However that does not cover all possibilities. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/04/2012 : 08:56:08 [Permalink]
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| I'm just winging it here, but I think someone could serve as President twice in a row, then run for and be elected Vice President. Then arrange for the death of the President and serve out that term. Rinse and repeat for as long as you could find someone innocent enough to be a running mate. |
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/04/2012 08:58:33 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2012 : 09:14:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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22nd Amendment:
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. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2012 : 15:17:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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22nd Amendment:
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.
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Right. So at present, the best one could hope for is to take over for President with a year or so left, and then run and win the office twice more. But that's it. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2012 : 05:06:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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22nd Amendment:
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.
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Right. So at present, the best one could hope for is to take over for President with a year or so left, and then run and win the office twice more. But that's it.
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Just where does the 22nd Amendment prohibit my assassination technique for almost continuously being the President? |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2012 : 05:08:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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22nd Amendment:
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.
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Right. So at present, the best one could hope for is to take over for President with a year or so left, and then run and win the office twice more. But that's it.
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Just where does the 22nd Amendment prohibit my assassination technique for almost continuously being the President for many decades? |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2012 : 08:07:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by The Rat
I know that a president is only allowed to serve two terms, but does this mean consecutive terms? Could a previous president run again after another has served?
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22nd Amendment:
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.
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Right. So at present, the best one could hope for is to take over for President with a year or so left, and then run and win the office twice more. But that's it.
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Just where does the 22nd Amendment prohibit my assassination technique for almost continuously being the President for many decades?
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It doesn't. But who is going to let you run at the bottom of the ticket after you get the first guy killed?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/05/2012 : 08:35:30 [Permalink]
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| I'd say that they COULD run for VP after two terms, however if there was a death or removal the Speaker of the House would have to assume the duty of President... |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2012 : 08:57:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
It doesn't. But who is going to let you run at the bottom of the ticket after you get the first guy killed? |
Everyone would fear me too much to thwart my evil plot. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2012 : 11:48:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Dude
It doesn't. But who is going to let you run at the bottom of the ticket after you get the first guy killed? |
Everyone would fear me too much to thwart my evil plot.
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D.C. laughs at your puny evil plot, seven larger evil plots would stop you! |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Question on American presidential term limits
