Why Hillary Clinton Can't legally Be President By John Christian Ryter (Re Excerpt: "The Arnold Amendment")

Why Hillary Clinton Can't legally Be President

(Re Excerpt: "The Arnold Amendment")

By John Christian Ryter
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2007/070914.html
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In point of fact, about the time this article appeared in 2004, an effort was being made to enact what became known as "the Arnold Amendment" that was purportedly designed to change the laws of the land to provide for naturalized citizens like California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to legally seek the office of President of the United States. The Arnold Amendment was really the Screw America Amendment since it was covertly designed to legalize Hillary Clinton's run for the roses.

Since Hillary knows that 60% of the American people—men and women—will never vote for her, telling people the purpose of the Arnold Amendment was to degenderize Article II of the Constitution, the amendment would be a non-starter. But then, even without being told, most people figured it out because the Arnold Amendment appears to be stuck in limbo.

Even before his term of office expired at noon on January 20, 2001, President William Jefferson Clinton was quietly querying friendly members of the U.S. Supreme Court to see if they would be inclined to rule that the 22nd Amendment prevented a president from serving more than two terms in the White House, or if there might be five justices on the high court who could be legally persuaded that the 22nd Amendment didn't exclude the president from serving more than two terms, only that it prevented him from serving more than two consecutive terms. 

If the Justices could be convinced to frame a ruling based on what Clinton believed was "the spirit" in which the 22nd Amendment was offered for ratification rather than the high court adhering to the letter of the language within the amendment, Clinton might have been able to return to the presidential political arena in 2004 and challenge the son of his old nemesis.
However, the consensus Clinton sought from the justices of the high court escaped him. It was the view of the US Supreme Court that the 22nd Amendment was clear and unambiguous. No man could hold the office of President for more than two terms. And, any president serving two years and one day of the unexpired term of a former president was ineligible to seek reelection at all.

There had been idle chatter in Democratic circles in 2004 that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry might offer the vice presidential slot to Bill Clinton—even though Hillary tried hard to buy it for herself. However, the 22nd Amendment prevented Bill Clinton from being placed on the ticket as Kerry's vice presidential running mate just as Article II of the Constitution prevents Hillary Clinton from constitutionally assuming for the job. In fact, for precisely the same reason that Bill Clinton couldn't serve as vice president, neither can Hillary.

Why? Because she couldn't constitutionally fill the vacancy caused by the death, resignation, impeachment and removal of any US president under whom she served. The Constitution of the United States actually prevents Hillary—or any woman for that matter—from ascending to the office of President even though several women have already run for the office.

The first woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull, a stockbroker and "protégé" of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull ran for President on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872. Belva Lockwood, the first woman admitted to practice law before the US Supreme Court became that party's candidate for president in 1884 and 1888. 
Both women ran on a platform for which there was no constituency that would vote for them—not even themselves. Neither woman could vote. Womanhood did not get the vote until the ratification of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920. While the 19th Amendment provided women with the right to vote, it did not provide them the right to seek the highest office in the land—a legality that has been overlooked by office seekers, male and female, since 1920..........

In 1964 US Senator Margaret Chase Smith [R-ME] became the first woman to have her name placed in nominattion for President by a major political party. Smith was nominated by Sen. George Aiken that year. The nomination went to Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater who lost in the general election to President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Because women were not viable candidates for the office of the President, their candidacy was viewed only as evidence that the party hierarchy, whether Democrat or Republican, was solidly behind women's suffrage—particularly when the National Organization of Women [NOW] became a strong feminist advocacy voice in American politics in the 1960s.
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