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>VP candidates have to be "valid" (birth citizenship, age, not have served two terms). Nothing about 2 terms. The 12th says: " But no person constitutionally
by trhway 2y ago
>VP candidates have to be "valid" (birth citizenship, age, not have served two terms).
Nothing about 2 terms. The 12th says:
" But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
One can see that "constitutionally ineligible" here can easily be only about things like being natural born citizen, age (ie. the things which apply even to the 1st term). At least when you have your own Supreme Court.
- immibis 2y agoHaven't they already reinterpreted "two terms" to mean "two consecutive terms" anyway? When you have your own Supreme Court it's easy. The next step will be to declare that two consecutive terms is actually just one long term, and so on. Every dictator does something like this - not always the exact thing, but something like it, some flimsy excuse and if everyone goes along with the excuse, they gain power.