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12th Amendment Vice-President Eligibility

The 12th Amendment’s final sentence and its implications on a twice-elected ex-President being eligible to the office of Vice-President, considering the 22nd Amendment’s ban on being elected President more than twice.

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Feb 6, 2026

How would the 12th Amendment affect a vice‑presidential workaround to the 22nd Amendment?

The ’s final sentence — “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice‑President” — sits at the center of a heated scholarly debate over whethe...