Note follow-ups.

Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "Todd Fatheree"
wrote:
"Doug Miller" wrote in message
om...
In article , "Andy"
wrote:
Doug,

It does say "elected". It doesn't say they can't "inherit" the
office.

To "inherit" the office ("succeed" would actually be the proper
term), one
would need to be Vice President first, no? And by Amendment 12,
anyone not
eligible to be President is not eligible to be VP either.
of time?

Hmmm...I wonder if he could be elected to the US House, become
Speaker, then
the President and VP are killed in office, whereby the Speaker
assumes the
responsibililites of President.

No. The Federal law (3 USC 19) establishing the line of succession is
quite
clear upon that point: anyone not eligible, under the Constitution,
to be
President is not eligible to succeed to the office.

http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/3/19.html


That link got cut off, I think this is what you mean:

http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/usc...9----000-.html

Oddly enough, I cannot find a provision in the Constitution which
authorizes
the Congress to provide for the eventuality that both the Presidency
and
Vice Presidentcy are simultaneously vacant. Amendment 20 addresses the
death of Presidential or Vice Presidential Candidates when either
office
is to be decided by those respective houses.

And read Amendment 22 again:

Amendment XXII

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. ...

(Emphasis mine)

Undeniably Clinton is COnstitutionally ineligible to be ELECTED
President, (or VP per Amendment 12). He is not by Amendment 22
ineligible to serve as President through application of the
line of succession.

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FF