Posted by Shelly on 09/18/07 15:49

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>> "Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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>>>> I LOVE that last statement. Down with the Unpatriot Act! Next year it
>>>> is "So long Bush, it's not been good to know ya".
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>>> unless we go to war. in which case, he cannot be removed from office.
>>> ;^)
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>> Where did that come from? I don't believe there are any such qualifiers
>> on the two-term limit for the presidency. Come the middle of January
>> 2009, he is [bad] history.
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> as far as i can remember from history courses some time ago, there are two
> circumstances underwhich a president can occupy his seat for more that
> eight years (two-terms). first, is assumption of presidency via the demise
> of the encumbant...i.e. assassination, and then being re-elected for his
> ensuing term(s) for a total service time of 12 years. and, in the event of
> war a president's term may be extended beyond either of those periods of
> time (8 and 12 years).

No! The limit is just less than 10 years. If he has more than half the
remaining term if the deceased president, then he can only be elected one
time (> 6 years). If less that half, then he can be elected twice (<10
years)
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> i may, however, no be recalling correctly on the latter. i'll have to
> check. scary if true though.

I never heard of the war thing.

Here it is:

Amendment 22 - Presidential Term Limits
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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of
President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not
prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as
President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from
holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder
of such term [vis: Truman].

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as
an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the
States by the Congress.

No mention of war.

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Shelly (Sheldon)

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