Timeline for What prevents the president from quitting the job to the vice president?
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 23:47 | vote | accept | Bombyx mori | ||
| Sep 6, 2016 at 23:47 | vote | accept | Bombyx mori | ||
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 23:57 | comment | added | supercat | If someone were to win the VP nod, the President-elect withdrew before inauguration, and four years later one ran and won again as VP, and again had the President-elect drop out, one would never have been "elected" President; one would thus remain eligible for election despite having already served 8 years. Until someone is elected President at least once the 22nd Amendment wouldn't limit how many years they could serve as President. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 23:42 | comment | added | cpast | @Jasper You don't need American parents to be a natural-born citizen. The claim for Arthur was that he was born in Canada; he maintained that he was born in the US, there were no good records either way, but if he was born in Vermont he was automatically a citizen. Not sure who else you're talking about. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | Jasper | It seems that there are only two bodies with the authority to refuse in ineligible presidential candidate -- the College of Electors, and the House of Representatives (which reads the Electors' votes). The members of the College of Electors are allegedly bound by state laws; it does not have enough permanence to have rules for verifying candidate eligibility. Similarly, the House of Representatives acts as a rubber stamp for the College of Electors. The United States has refused to recognize anyone as having standing to sue against an allegedly ineligible presidential candidate. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 23:23 | comment | added | Jasper | Actually, the United States has had two presidents who were not constitutionally eligible to be president. Chester Alan Arthur was not a "natural born citizen" (he was not born in the United States to a father and mother who were also Americans); he was elected vice president. When the president was assassinated, he served out the remainder of the term as acting President. The other president to not be a "natural born citizen" was elected as President, and later re-elected. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 16:45 | comment | added | user1530 | @Bombyxmori if you're asking about the Underwoods, you should probably ask on movies.stackexchange.com | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 8:49 | history | answered | cpast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |