Editing Vice President of the United States (section)

===Term of office===

The term of office for both the vice president and the president is four years. While the [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-Second Amendment]] sets a limit on the number of times an individual can be elected to the presidency (two),<ref>{{cite web|title=Twenty-second Amendment|url=http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/twenty-second-amendment|work=Annenberg Classroom|publisher=The Annenberg Public Policy Center|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802041034/http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/twenty-second-amendment|url-status=live}}</ref> there is no such limitation on the office of vice president, meaning an eligible person could hold the office as long as voters continued to vote for electors who in turn would reelect the person to the office; one could even serve under different presidents. This has happened twice: [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] (1805–1812) served under both [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]]; and [[John C. Calhoun]] (1825–1832) served under [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref name=VP-PS/> Additionally, neither the Constitution's eligibility provisions nor the Twenty-second Amendment's presidential [[term limit]] explicitly disqualify a twice-elected president from serving as vice president, though it is arguably prohibited by the last sentence of the [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twelfth Amendment]]: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Constitution—Full Text | publisher=The National Constitution Center |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/full-text|access-date=2020-09-08|archive-date=September 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905233700/https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/full-text|url-status=live}}</ref> As of the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election cycle]], however, no former president has tested the amendment's legal restrictions or meaning by running for the vice presidency.<ref>{{cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901572.html|title=VP Bill? Depends on Meaning of 'Elected'|date=October 20, 2006|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-date=July 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719211326/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901572.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Peabody|first1=Bruce G.|last2=Gant|first2=Scott E.|title=The Twice and Future President: Constitutional Interstices and the Twenty-Second Amendment|journal=Minnesota Law Review|volume=83|page=565|url=http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Peabody-2.pdf|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|year=1999|access-date=July 16, 2018|archive-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129165813/http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Peabody-2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>