You just can't make what she says and does up....impossible to be that stupid!!!!!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely says, “They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said that the 22nd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in order to prevent U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt from getting reelected. You can see her saying it in this video:
Here are her exact words:
“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected.”
Here are two reasons why Ocasio-Cortez’s statement is wrong.
First of all, Roosevelt died two years before the 22nd amendment was approved by the U.S. Congress. Roosevelt died in 1945. The U.S. Congress approved the 22nd amendment in 1947.
Secondly, the 22nd amendment contains a clause which gives an exemption to whoever is President at the time the amendment is passed. This is the text of the 22nd amendment: (The bolding mine.)
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.
So that”s two different reasons why Ocasio-Cortez’s statement is wrong.
Where exactly does Ocasio-Cortez get her information?
wordpress ^ | April 2, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely says, “They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said that the 22nd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in order to prevent U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt from getting reelected. You can see her saying it in this video:
Here are her exact words:
“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected.”
Here are two reasons why Ocasio-Cortez’s statement is wrong.
First of all, Roosevelt died two years before the 22nd amendment was approved by the U.S. Congress. Roosevelt died in 1945. The U.S. Congress approved the 22nd amendment in 1947.
Secondly, the 22nd amendment contains a clause which gives an exemption to whoever is President at the time the amendment is passed. This is the text of the 22nd amendment: (The bolding mine.)
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.
So that”s two different reasons why Ocasio-Cortez’s statement is wrong.
Where exactly does Ocasio-Cortez get her information?
wordpress ^ | April 2, 2019
