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Oops, a constitutional law error in "Prison Break" season 2

By Tung Yin

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I've been rewatching season 2 of "Prison Break" on DVD while using the treadmill, and I realized that the show contains a serious constitutional error.  (Shocking, I know!)  Specifically, part of the continuing plotline involves then-Vice President Carolyn Reynolds' offering the VP slot on her Presidential ticket to Illinois Governor Tancredi.  In exchange, Tancredi is supposed to offer no resistance to the execution of Lincoln Burrows.  During the second season episode "Sweet Caroline," however, now-President Reynolds gives a speech in Chicago in which she says that she wouldn't be where she is today without the support of her home state of Illinois.

But wait, under the Twelfth Amendment, the President and the Vice-President cannot come from the same state.  Thus, Reynolds and Tancredi couldn't have been on the same ticket . . . .

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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