HELP!!! I need proof that a person can't serve three presidential

terms. I got into a "discussion" with some of my Orange County Republican co-workers (they are very nice people, they have no concept of what the neocons are about and believe that Republicans still believe in fiscal responsibility, etc-whatever). Anyhow, four of them insisted that someone could actually serve as president more than two terms. Please email links, verbage from the constitution, etc. asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html

See "Amendment XXII"

Puglicken tards.

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.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html

A person can be elected President, be elected as VP and the person as President dies or resigns or whatever becoming the President, and then could maybe be re-elected.

Amendments 12 and 22 deal with terms.

someone is elected President twice, then runs as VP (bypassing
the 22nd by NOT BEING ELECTED to the presidency for a third time),
the person elected President resigns or dies, and the VP now serves
for a third term (but cannot run for re-election, as he or she
has already been elected twice).

Unfortunately, it runs into the 12th amendment, which states
that only people qualified to run for President can serve
as President OR Vice President. Depending on how one parses this,
someone who has term-limited out cannot qualify to run as
Vice President.

Of course, this leave the last mind bending (but not impossible)
example. A person could, theoretically, bypass all of this by
being elected twice, and NOT being elected ever again to the
Presidency. So... you become VEEP like Ford did, not elected
to it. Then the President resigns, and you get your third term.

Amendment XXII
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.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

I see you got it. I did too. I googled "presidential term limits"
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxxii.html
Good luck with your co-workers.

Harry Truman was the last President that could serve more than 2 terms under the constitution. Of course, the neocons could use terra to try and suspend the constitution and the 22nd amendment.

That's just basic civics. I can't believe anyone at least semi-educated would think that.

I don't know why I think this...must be some residual neuron firing from high school civics.

I believe that if a vice-president assumes the presidency upon the death or removal of the elected president, he/she can serve out the remainder of that term and be elected for two more terms so long as the total time he/she is president doesn't exceed 10 years.

..who proves emphatically that, constitionally speaking, one can indeed serve more than two terms, but someone "smarter" at DU always disputes it (even though the writer is, like I said, a constitional scholar, lawyer, professor, writer, etc.)