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thesquanderer

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9. It's a gray area. The constitution does not say presidents can only serve two terms...

Reply to Marrah_Goodman (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 05:58 PM

Mar 2020

...reather, it says they cannot be ELECTED to the office more than twice. If Obama were elected to the office of VP (not President), but then was elevated to the position of president through other circumstances, that is not literally prohibited by the language of the amendment.

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It's not clear that the Constitution would even allow that. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #5

No- Presidents can only serve two terms Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #6

It's a gray area. The constitution does not say presidents can only serve two terms... thesquanderer Mar 2020 #9

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