Posted by lil' jimi on April 4, 2007, at 9:51:58
In reply to Re: Bush/Cheney '08 » lil' jimi, posted by saturn on April 4, 2007, at 7:37:55
> >>> The limitations on terms served only applies to the president.
i am no authority, but i believe that is true.
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> So you could serve as VP indefinitely?although i could not find any resource to state so explicitly, i could find none that denied this.
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> Even after being President for 8 years?no, i do not think so.
the Twelfth Amendment makes the requirements for being vice-president the same as for being president and any two-term president would not be qualified to be president.>
> I've always wondered about this.until "dead-eye" transmorgrified it into a "Fourth Branch" of government, the vice-presidency was always looked down upon as either a guarantee of obscurity or a stepping stone to the oval office.
the not unreasonable expectation would be that politicians' natural ambition would delimit vice-presidents to two terms.
poster:lil' jimi
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