Bill Clinton is not ineligible to serve as President, he is merely ineligible to be *elected* President. Read the 22nd Am. carefully and see how Congress screwed up in the final drafting of the amendment, thus opening up a loophole that would allow Bill Clinton to accede to the White House if the President died, resigned or was removed and Bill Clinton was next in line.
And the 12th Am merely says that persons ineligible to serve as President are also ineligible to serve as VP, so since the 22nd Am doesn’t declare Bill Clinton ineligible to *serve* as President then he is not ineligible to serve as VP (or be elected VP, for that matter).
So if we want to keep Bill Clinton from serving as President again, we need to make sure he is not elected VP (or Speaker of the House or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or get confirmed as a member of a Cabinet).
Same thing applies to George W. Bush, by the way.
I dont read it that way.
12th Amendment text:
“But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
That means you CANNOT be VP if you are not eligible to be President. Clinton cannot be elected President again. There fore he is INELIGIBLE to be President again. And therefore, he cannot be VP.
The 12th requirement keeps anyone out who is ineligible to be President. That means two termers.
The 22nd amendment say nothing about serving as President. BUt the 12th precludes those who are ineligible candiates from being VP, thus Clinton could not constitutionally be in a position to 'serve'.
Which means he can't be president. The word elected does not mean what you think it does.