ARTICLE II, SECTION 1
"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."
So to hold the office one must be, at the time of assuming office:
- A Natural Born Citizen
- 35 Years of Age
- 14 Years a Resident
AMENDMENT 22, PARA 1
"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."
Notice this Amendment does not specificy eligibility to hold the office, it ONLY refers to being elected to office which is technically done by the Electoral College not the votes of the populus of each state.
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The mental masturbation that cultist engage in hinges on the semantics of "eligible" and "elected" which are two different things. The difference being
eligible to assume and
elected. Article II Section 1 defines the conditions to be able to assume the Office of the President, while the 22nd Amendment is limited to electing someone to specifically the Office of the President.
There are two fantasy methods:
#1 Trump gets elected Vice President and gets voted in as Vice President. The President resigns and under Article II Section 1 is eligible to assume the office.
#2 The House nominates and selects Trump as Speaker of the House, then either the President and Vice President resign, the President and Vice President are impeached and removed from office or there is a tragic "accident" that invovles the death of both the President and Vice President. Then through the lines of succession the Speaker becomes President.
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[DISCLAIMER: Both are abosulte bullshyte and will never happen. But those are the fantasies.]
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