Norquist adopts VFR idea banning spousal successor in White House

According to a story in the London Times (via the Drudge Report):

[Grover] Norquist has commissioned lawyers to draw up a constitutional amendment that would ban family members from succeeding one another to elected and appointed office…. Norquist believes that it will alert voters to the perils of dynasty.

I already have drawn up such an amendment and posted at VFR last July:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President who is the spouse of a person who is ineligible for the Presidency under the Twenty-Second Amendment to this Constitution.

However, Norquist apparently wants to ban presidential sons and other relatives from the presidency, as well as spouses.

Speaking of constitutional amendments, I have also proposed a much more radical amendment that would ban the practice of Islam in America. To my surprise, it elicited no comments. But it was a brief entry and I still need to expand on the justifications and benefits of the amendment.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 12, 2007 11:22 AM | Send