The Twenty-fifth Amendment : its complete history and applications / John D. Feerick ; foreword by Birch Bayh.
1992
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Author
Title
The Twenty-fifth Amendment : its complete history and applications / John D. Feerick ; foreword by Birch Bayh.
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 1992.
Call Number
KF5082 .F44 1992
Edition
[Second edition, with additions.].
Alternate Title
25th Amendment
ISBN
0823213722
0823213730 (pbk.) :
0823213730 (pbk.) :
Description
xxix, 274 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)26503477
Note
Spine title: 25th Amendment
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-268) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the 1992 Edition
Acknowledgments
Foreword / Birch Bayh
Preface
I
The Problems
1Presidential Inability
3
2Vice Presidential Vacancy
27
3Succession Beyond the Vice Presidency
35
II
The Solution
4Early Steps to Solve the Inability Problem
51
5Senate Passage of S. J. Res. 139
59
6Congress Acts
83
7Ratification
111
III
First Implementations of the Solution
8The Resignation of Spiro T. Agnew
117
9The Substitution of Gerald R. Ford
129
10The Resignation of Richard M. Nixon and Succession of Gerald R. Ford
153
11The Installation of Nelson A. Rockefeller
163
IV
An Evaluation
12An Analysis of Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Amendment
193
13An Appraisal
213
14Recommendations
233
App. A: Section-by-Section Development of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
243
App. B: Constitutional Provisions on Succession
248
App. C: Statutory Succession Laws
251
App. D: Presidential Vacancies
254
Vice Presidential Vacancies
255
App. E: Times During Which the Speaker, the President pro tempore, or Both Were from a Party Different from the President's
256
App. F: Republican Party Procedure
258
App. G: Democratic Party Procedure
259
Bibliography
261
Index
269
About the Author
275