Can a former president become a vice president?
I remember being in high school asking my teacher “I understand that you can only be president for a maximum of 8 years, but afterwards, are you able to return as a vice president?” She never answered that question and I am curious again. I am also curious about a vice president able to run for president. I think they are, but I’m more concerned about the first question. Thanks
A vice president can run for president
A former two term president can not accept a VP offer
Clinton has stated himself it would be unconstitutional.
So hillary will not be picking bill as her running mate like so many hope.
NO.
no
The constitution doesn’t forbid it but there is no precedent.
Still, most people don’t want Bill back in the White House!
no
If this happened, and the president died, a former two-term president would not be eligible to take over the presidency.
I cannot think of a former one-term president, living or dead, whom I would like to see in the White House again.
It is very unlikely that a passed president can become a vice president as president been retired
No, the constitution says that anyone ineligible for the office of president is also automatically ineligible for vice president.
A former vice president can run for president (for example, Al Gore).
I was wondering the same thing and I just found this article that addresses many different arguments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901572.html
Everyone who answered this with “No, because you can’t be president for more than 8 years” would do well with a brush up on 8th grade civics.
Let’s say that a sitting president dies on his first day in office. His VP then takes over. That VP serves out the remainder of the deceased president’s term–which means he serves 3 years, 364 days (well, 365 what with leap year, but I didn’t want to confuse people further.) That VP can then run for president and is eligible to serve 2 full terms–8 years.
That’s the provision: you can only be ELECTED twice and serve those terms, but theoretically, a president could be president for just shy of 12 years and it would still be legal.
Now, interpreted strictly, this would mean that yes, a former president can be elected VP, because he is only prevented from serving more than 8 ELECTED years.
Is it going to happen? No. And yes, a VP can run for president, for the reasons stated above: the limit is 8 years of elected position. You can serve 8 years as VP–possibly more; I’m not sure there are vice presidential term limits–and still serve 8 years as a president, too. But frankly, Americans are two fickle to allow anyone to have such power that long. We all think we can do it better.