Ineligible VP Choices
The following mentioned choices are ineligible to be Vice President because they are ineligible to be President (the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution states that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States").
- Former President William J. Clinton (ineligible because he had already served two terms as president, but some sources point out that the legal-but-unlikely route of becoming president through the line of succession is still available)
- U.S. Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (Tenn.) (ineligible because he would not have been 35 years of age by Inauguration Day)
- Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm (ineligible because she was born in Canada)
Read more about this topic: John Kerry Presidential Campaign VP Selection Process
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