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Kind of transparent in that the only people it allows to have a third term are Trump and Grover Cleveland. (Remember, there is no maximum age limit for the pre
by madcaptenor 1y ago
Kind of transparent in that the only people it allows to have a third term are Trump and Grover Cleveland. (Remember, there is no maximum age limit for the presidency.)
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoHmm. Constitutionally, is being dead a disqualification?
- madcaptenor 1y agoThe 25th amendment says that "In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President." But it doesn't say what happens if the president starts out dead. The 25th amendment also provides for the VP and a majority of the cabinet to be allowed to declare the president unfit, but in a world where a dead person gets elected things may be sufficiently weird that they wouldn't do this.
- madcaptenor 1y agoalso see the 20th amendment: "If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President." So it seems like a dead person can be elected but cannot serve.