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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject: Dare to Share? |
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 Dare to Share?
By Chris SuellentropNYT - No, really, co-presidents: Are you tired of the endless Obama-Clinton, Clinton-Obama campaign for the presidency? Or would you like to see it continue for the next 16 years? Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional law professor at Yale, sees a loophole in the Constitution that would permit Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to share the presidency for four terms.
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By Chris SuellentropNYT - No, really, co-presidents: Are you tired of the endless Obama-Clinton, Clinton-Obama campaign for the presidency? Or would you like to see it continue for the next 16 years? Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional law professor at Yale, sees a loophole in the Constitution that would permit Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to share the presidency for four terms.“The Constitution’s 25th Amendment allows for a new paradigm of political teamwork,” he writes in Slate. “The two Democratic candidates could publicly agree to take turns in the top slot.” Here’s how:Adopted in 1967 in the shadow of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the 25th Amendment allows presidents unilaterally to transfer presidential power to their vice presidents and enables presidents, with congressional consent, to fill a vacancy in the vice presidency should one arise. By creatively using the constitutional rules created by this amendment, the Democrats can, if they are so inclined, present the voters in November with a new kind of balanced ticket.Here’s how it would work: In August at the Democratic National Convention, the party would nominate one candidate for president and the other for vice president in the time-honored way. In their acceptance speeches, the nominees would announce that they intend to alternate. For example, they could tell the voters that the person heading the Democratic ticket would, if elected, take office in January 2009 but would serve as president for only the first three years of the four-year term. In January 2012, the teammates would use the 25th Amendment to switch places, and the person elected vice president would assume the presidency for the final year of the term. There is nothing magical about these dates. Almost any date would do. For maximal democratic legitimacy, however, the candidates should inform the voters before the election of the specific date when their planned shift of power will occur.
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