Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/18/07 16:39

Steve wrote:
> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>> "Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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>>> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.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".
>>> unless we go to war. in which case, he cannot be removed from office. ;^)
>> 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.
>
> 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).
>

Incorrect. The 22nd Amendment states:

Sect. 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.

Sect. 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.


There is no exclusion for war.

> i may, however, no be recalling correctly on the latter. i'll have to check.
> scary if true though.
>
>


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