Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause
I am pleased to announce that the South Texas Law Review has published the sixth installment in the Tillman-Blackman series on the offices and officers of the Constitution.
Here is the abstract of Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause.
This Article is the sixth installment of a planned ten-part series that provides the first comprehensive examination of the offices and officers of the Constitution. The first installment introduced the series. The second installment identified four approaches to understand the Constitution’s divergent “office”- and “officer”-language. The third installment analyzed the phrase “Officers of the United States,” which is used in the Appointments Clause, the Impeachment Clause, the Commissions Clause, and the Oath or Affirmation Clause. Part IV traced the history of the “Office . . . under the United States” drafting convention. Part V considered the meaning of the phrase “Office . . . under the United States,” which appears in the Incompatibility Clause, the Impeachment Disqualification Clause, the Foreign Emoluments Clause, and the Elector Incompa
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