# Vice Presidents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034 "2003-08-13T23:30:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Dogstar1288](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dogstar1288](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogstar1288)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/1 "2003-08-13T23:30:40Z")

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I was reading through the Constitution and no where does it say that the Vice President must be a natural born citizen. Is this true? I know it is true of the President, but what if Arnold wants to become the VP along with Condoleeza Rice as President in 2008? is it possible?

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/2 "2003-08-13T23:36:41Z")

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No…the VP has to meet the same qualifications for president. If they didn’t they could not take the presidents place if that need came up.

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**Author:** ![Dogstar1288](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dogstar1288](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogstar1288)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/3 "2003-08-13T23:39:47Z")

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Well hell they should put that in the constitution!

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/4 "2003-08-13T23:48:16Z")

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I would think it was obvious.

But what do I know.

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**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/5 "2003-08-13T23:52:02Z")

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Wasn’t the VP once the losing presidential candidate? If so he would’ve had to have met the requirements.

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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidents/195034/6 "2003-08-14T00:23:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dogstar1288 \*  
> **I was reading through the Constitution and no where does it say that the Vice President must be a natural born citizen. Is this true?**

This is what happens when you don’t read the _whole_ Constitution and just try to skim it for the hot parts! Per the Twelfth Amendment:

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