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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 04:24 PM
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16. No. This is the constitutional eligibility requirements
Edited on Tue Jan-10-06 04:26 PM by MadisonProgressive
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

“The 12th Amendment would allow a Clinton vice-presidency. Its
language only bars from the vice-presidency those persons who are
"ineligible to the office" of President. Clinton is not ineligible to
the office of president, however. He is only disqualified (by the 22nd
Amendment) from being elected to that office.”

“This is no mere semantic distinction. Article II of the Constitution
carefully defines exactly who is "eligible to the Office of
President": anyone who is a natural born citizen, at least 35 years
old, and has been a U.S. resident for at least 14 years.”
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