A Joe Biden/Barack Obama ticket passes Constitutional muster according to legal experts

[mr_lebowski]

34. It would've been extremely easy for them to make this intent

that you're so sure of ... clear. "Nobody may serve as President for > 8 Years". Boom, done. Instead they say 'may be elected twice to office of President', specifically.

I think the case could be made that the intent in the way it was worded was that they didn't mean to make it so an 8 year POTUS later could not run for VP, or to be in The House (where they could become Speaker, who is 3rd in line), or become Sec State (4th in line, as you noted elsewhere) and on and on. Where do you draw the line? If Sec Labor is 12th in line, can Obama never be Sec Labor?

Instead they added a specific '10 year limit of serving as POTUS in case of Succession' to the part about only being elected twice.

Thus, I think you're incorrect on the intent, and that the intent is, in fact, the actual WORDS written down on the paper, when read in a literal fashion.

Also, did you see this part?

"Indeed, Dorf even signaled that the present-day Supreme Court’s hands would be tied on the matter. In a case from 1968, the Court ruled eligibility requirements that restrict people from running for federal office had to be read with a narrow interpretation — that is, the letter of the law mattered more than a broad interpretation of the rules. To rule differently now would thwart the established precedent created more than 50 years ago."