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Also vice presidency. They have to be eligible to be president, since most of their job is to be a hot spare.
by mikeash 8y ago
Also vice presidency. They have to be eligible to be president, since most of their job is to be a hot spare.
- berbec 8y agoI'm not certain about that. Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 lists the requirements for President but none for vice. The entirety of the executive branch requirements is one long sentance: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." [1] Amendment 20 Section 3 lists order of succession and specifically spells out "Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President". [2] IANAConstitutionalScholor, but I take this to mean someone who could not become president may be vice president, but would be passed over in the event of the death, resignation etc of the President. 1: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America#Section_1_2 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_St... 2: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Additional_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Amendment_XX https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Additional_amendments_to_the_...