"Stan Sieler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Re:
>
> >   But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President
shall
> > be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
>
> No problem...note the above doesn't say "no person constitutionally
> ineligble to be *elected* President shall be eligible...",
> it just addresses persons not eligible to *be* President (e.g., foreign
born).
>
> My analysis still stands :)

Actually, over in the misc.legal newsgroup around 2000 or so, they were
discussing just this - and the concensus was that a president was ineligible
to run for Veep because of this.


> > However, the way to get around that is a little harder, but possible.
Just
> > become speaker of the house, and then ...
>
> Yep, that also works :)
>
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