Presidential age limit

Politics
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Polls indicate majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents SUPPORT a Constitutional Amendment establishing a maximum age for serving as President.

Trump and Biden are both sterling examples and Reagan’s cognitive decline towards the end of his Presidency has been documented scientifically.

Amendment 29

Section 1. No person shall be eligible for election to the office of President of the United States or Vice President of the United States, who shall attain to the age of seventy years prior to the final day of the upcoming Presidential term.

Section 2. No person shall be eligible for election to the office of Vice President of the United States under the provisions of the twenty fifth article of amendment, if such person shall attain to the age of seventy years prior to the final day of the current Vice Presidential term.

Section 3. No person shall be eligible to succeed to the office of President of the United States under the Constitution or any statute, if such person shall attain to the age of seventy years prior to the final day of the current Presidential term.

Section 4. If the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be ineligible to succeed to the office of President under this article of amendment, the United States House of Representatives shall designate, at the beginning of their term and whenever necessary, one of their members to stand in the line of Presidential succession in lieu of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Section 5. If the President pro Tempore of the Senate shall be ineligible to succeed to the office of President under this article of amendment, the United States Senate shall designate, at the beginning of their term and whenever necessary, one of their members to stand in the line of Presidential succession in lieu of the President pro Tempore of the Senate.

Section 6. This article of amendment shall not be construed to apply during the Presidential term in which it is proclaimed as being a part of the Constitution of the United States, nor to a subsequent Presidential term if it is proclaimed as part of the Constitution of the United States subsequent to the first day of January proceeding an election of Presidential electors.

Section 7. This article of amendment shall be construed as self executing.

This is a bipartisan amendment to a bipartisan issue. It should be plain to all that an age amendment is needed.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to compel candidates to come completely clean regarding their health. This solves that problem by categorical eliminating a class of potentially problematic candidates.

It would not affect Biden during his current term, but it would, if proclaimed on or prior to January 1st, 2024, prevent him from running for a second term.

I would support such an article of amendment.

Again, solid bipartisan majorities support this amendment and support the age of 70 as the cutoff.

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wait. bidens in cognitive decline?

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how is trump a “sterling” example of decline?

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and why doesnt this apply to 80’s year old Pelosi congress?

hmmm

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It would actually bar her from the line of succession.

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wonder if she’d vote for such a thing

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No reason for her not to, this is a bipartisan issue, with bipartisan support and the amendment would have an equal bipartisan effect.

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I like it.

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I will be turning 74 before long. I would support such an amendment.

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Term limits would take care of everything. If we had term limits we wouldn’t have Biden.

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Maybe getting rid of Biden would solve 90% of the issue with term limits.

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I would support that along with term limits. Raising the age for someone to become a member of Congress as well.

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What?

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This I would not agree with. That should be left to the voters to determine if the congressperson is adequately representing them and can think clearly. It does not involve the same sort of risk as someone in charge of the nuclear trigger.

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I always pictured you younger. Early 50’s maybe.

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Biden served in the Senate from 1973 to 2009.

If a two-term limit were in place then he would have been out of office in 1985. No one would even remember who he was.

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For example. My idea – no citizen may serve more than 20 years in any combination of federally elected capacity. This is based on 10-2 year terms in the house (max) then no other position (senate or president). 3-terms in senate and 1 term in house. 5 terms as president.
But it could be any combination that doesn’t exceed 20 years. 3 terms in the house (6 years), a single term in the senate (6 years), then 2 years as president (4 years)

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Alas.

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Lets see where the major candidates would stand, if this amendment was ratified and proclaimed prior to January 1st, 2024. (Thus fully effective for the 2025 to 2029 term.)

Democrats

Biden - ineligible for reelection
Eric Adams - barely eligible for the 2025 to 2029 term, but ineligible for reelection
Pete Buttigieg - eligible for the next three terms and beyond
Roy Cooper - ineligible
Gavin Newsom - eligible for the next three terms
Bernie Sanders - ineligible
Kyrsten Sinema - eligible for the next three terms and beyond
Gretchen Whitmer - eligible for the next four terms

Republicans

Trump - ineligible
Liz Cheney - eligible for the next two terms
Chris Christie - eligible for the next term only
Ron DeSantis - eligible for the next four terms and beyond
Mike Pence - eligible for the next term only
Greg Abbott - ineligible
Glenn Youngkin - eligible for the next two terms

It would obviously knock out candidates on either side, but plenty of viable candidates would be left on both sides, more viable candidates remaining then the number knocked out.

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Ageism in all it’s glory.

Not all people Biden’s age are demented.

There .are much younger people who are demented.

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