Text 20517, 59 rader
Skriven 2006-05-28 21:39:04 av George Lagergren (1:106/2000.0)
  Kommentar till text 20476 av Vern Humphrey (1:123/140)
Ärende: War Monkey
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GL> Even the 22nd Amendment about NOT electing a prez more than twice
GL> could get screw up by the SC.
 
GL> Suppose a very popular prez serves two terms then sits out for
GL> four years.   That person decides to run for prez again as an
GL> independent and wins by a 80% vote.   Note:  think Teddy
GL> Roosevelt and Bill Clinton.

VH> George, that magnet has scrambled your reading ability:

VH> Amendment XXII

VH> Section 1.
VH> No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than
VH> twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as
VH> President, for more than two years of a term to which some other
VH> person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the
VH> President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any
VH> person holding the office of President when this article was proposed
VH> by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding
VH> the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within
VH> which this article becomes operative from holding the office of
VH> President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

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

    When writing this amendment, didn't Congress remember about Grover
    Cleveland who served split terms?

    Vern, does Section 1 ACTUALLY say:

    Section 1.
    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than
    twice as a lifetime limit .....

    If not, the SC could possibly say Section 1 LOGICALLY means:

    Section 1.
    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than
    twice in a row .....

    Too bad Bill Clinton is not wealthly enough to run as an independent
    to test this theory.  Would the SC prevent Bill Clinton from taking
    office again?

    Of course, Hillary Clinton will run in 2008 and possibly be the
    first former First Lady to become a prez.

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