• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    The 2nd doesn’t work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.

    The 22nd amendment is worded in a way that could be interpreted as an eligibility to run for the presidency, not an eligibility to be the president. Theoretically, the supreme court step in and give their interpretation of it.

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      10 hours ago

      Read the document. It specifically calls out the VP for this. You can’t be elected VP if you can’t be elected president.

      • no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States

        Which begs the question, is the 22nd amendment a requirement to be president or just a requirement to get elected as president.

        The supreme court can decide.

        (I know what the spirit of the law is, but

        the letter of the law =/= the spirit of the law)