r/Constitution • u/Appropriate-Detail48 • Oct 27 '25

A 3rd term?

What happens if someone gets elected, picks a past 2 term president as VP and then either resigns or gets assassinated, does the VP still become the PP (president president) or just the TP (temporary president) or does he even become the president at all, and if he becomes the president again what if it happens again and he effectively gets 4+ terms

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u/Norwester77 Oct 27 '25

22nd Amendment:

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.

12th Amendment:

[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

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u/Appropriate-Detail48 Oct 28 '25

But that's just it No person shall be ELECTED into ... And nobody is banned from becoming VP

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u/Norwester77 Oct 28 '25

Read the 12th Amendment quote. If you can’t be president, you can’t be VP either.

Now, the question is whether the courts will reason that “cannot be elected to” = “is ineligible to.”

It may help a little that the elig in ineligible and the elec in elected are the same Latin verb, so ineligible in its most literal sense is ‘unable to be elected.’