Can a two term president be elected vice president?

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Amendment XV, Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Amendment XXII, 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...

Amendment XII: ...But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.


One may make a very technical argument to get around this, saying that the guy is only ineligible to be "elected" President, not to the office as a whole...but anyone but the strictest of constructionists would probably agree that that
argument is bunk.


A more frightening scenario is this:

Vice-President Smith is sworn in as President after the sudden death of the President.

He runs for re-election as vice-president three years later, and wins.

The new President promptly resigns on January 21st, and Smith is sworn in as President.

Wash rinse repeat four years, eight years, twelve years later....