I understand that in America a President can only serve two terms.
If a Vice-President becomes President due to the current President standing down, or being incapacitated permanently, then would that count as a formal first term so they could only be elected one time, or could they then get more than 8 years as President?
Also, could a 2 term President then become a Vice-president?
@divegeester
I learned from a documentary on George Washington that, because he chose to be president for only two terms and he was such a competent president, nobody coming after him should stay more than two terms.
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@torunn saidFDR was elected for a fourth term
@divegeester
I learned from a documentary on George Washington that, because he chose to be president for only two terms and he was such a competent president, nobody coming after him should stay more than two terms.
he died before completing his fourth term
the 22nd amendment limits the president to two terms
@lemondrop saidIf the documentary had continued, we might have got to the exceptions of that rule. 🙂
FDR was elected for fourth term
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@paul-a-roberts saidThere is a theoretical problem with a 2term president becoming VP: for, if his president should die or become incapacitated, then the VP would assume the office of the president for a 3d time. Below is the text of the amendment:
I understand that in America a President can only serve two terms.
If a Vice-President becomes President due to the current President standing down, or being incapacitated permanently, then would that count as a formal first term so they could only be elected one time, or could they then get more than 8 years as President?
Also, could a 2 term President then become a Vice-president?
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
The critical passage seems to be that no one shall be “elected” to the office more than twice, or more than once if he held the office once before (whether through election or other means).
@moonbus saidReading more, it seems that the 12th amendment could bar two term Presidents from being in the VP spot, or anyway high up in the ascendancy, so head of either house etc.
There is a theoretical problem with a 2term president becoming VP: for, if his president should die or become incapacitated, then the VP would assume the office of the president for a 3d time. Below is the text of the amendment:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted ...[text shortened]... wice, or more than once if he held the office once before (whether through election or other means).
@paul-a-roberts saidThe way I understand succession to office is that if the next person in the line is ineligible to hold the office, for any reason, then succession would merely skip over them to the next eligible person in line.
Reading more, it seems that the 12th amendment could bar two term Presidents from being in the VP spot, or anyway high up in the ascendancy, so head of either house etc.
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@suzianne saidYes, there is a clear chain of command, going through the Speaker of the House and then the Chief Justice, if the POTUS and the VP are not available.
The way I understand succession to office is that if the next person in the line is ineligible to hold the office, for any reason, then succession would merely skip over them to the next eligible person in line.
Trumpnicks please note: Prior living 1-term presidents are not on the list.
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@moonbus saidAs far as I know, the Chief Justice is not in the line of succession.
Yes, there is a clear chain of command, going through the Speaker of the House and then the Chief Justice, if the POTUS and the VP are not available.
Trumpnicks please note: Prior living 1-term presidents are not on the list.
1. Vice President
2. Speaker of the House
3. President pro tempore of the Senate
4-18. 15 Cabinet Secretaries, in the order of the creation of their Department. This makes State, Treasury and Defense the first three and Homeland Security last.