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Warren Stupidity

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11. Yes your link makes the same mistake.
Sat May 14, 2016, 11:48 AM
May 2016

The text of the amendment does not say that.


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. 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.

Section 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 nothing in the text that specifies that a person has to be replaced a the end of their 10th year. It isn't there. The situation of a two term president serving as vice president and replacing the president is not explicitly covered. Heck that person could have already done a full ten years the other way - the LBJ route, and manage a total of 14 years.

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