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| | Presidential Succession Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The act declared that, in the event of the death of both the President and Vice President, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate would act as President, followed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. | | | The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (codified as Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 of the United States Code) establishes the order of succession to the office of President of the United States in the event neither a President nor Vice President is able to "discharge the powers and duties of the office." | | | As with the original 1792 act, the act of 1886 was never implemented, and no one below the Vice Presidency ever succeeded to the presidency, but again there were instances where, had the President died, resigned, or been removed from office, the Secretary of State would have succeeded to the office. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act
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| | United States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Presidential Succession Act of 1792 was the first succession law passed by Congress. | | | The act was contentious because of conflict between the Federalists and Republicans. | | | The presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the United States upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and subsequent conviction) of a sitting President or a President-elect. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
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| | The Federalist Society |
| | Presidential succession is traumatic enough when the successor is from the President's own party, as in the case of the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963 or the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. | | | The 1886 Act was the statutory regime in place in 1945 when President Franklin Roosevelt died and Vice President Harry Truman succeeded to the Presidency, leaving a vacancy in the office of Vice President. | | | The 1947 Act is probably unconstitutional because it appears that the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate are not "Officers" eligible to act as President within the meaning of the Succession Clause [5]. |
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http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/Terrorism/presidentialsuccession.htm
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| | PH@school: The Living Constitution |
| | The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is the current law determining the order of succession in case of the President's death, resignation, or removal from office. | | | The order of succession in the 1947 Act was suggested by President Harry Truman, who had assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945. | | | Later, in 1886, Congress changed the presidential succession, removing the House and Senate members in favor of cabinet heads, who would succeed to the presidency in the order of their departments' creation. |
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http://www.phschool.com/atschool/constitution/constitution4e.html
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| | TAP: Web Feature: Line Dance. by Matthew Yglesias. September 24, 2003. |
| | Under such circumstances, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 dictates that the speaker of the House becomes the acting president, regardless of whether the two leaders are from the same party (on The West Wing they're not). | | | Current law dictates that cabinet officers follow legislative leaders in the succession hierarchy based on the chronological order in which their departments were created, meaning that the secretary of state goes first, followed by the secretaries of the treasury and defense and so forth down to the secretary of homeland security. | | | The problem is that Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution instructs Congress to "declare which officer" should act as president -- and many scholars doubt that the House speaker counts as an "officer," seeing as other parts of the Constitution use the term to refer to officials appointed by the president. |
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http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/09/yglesias-m-09-24.html
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| | Presidential Succession Act |
| | In that Act, Congress concluded that ''[t]he national interest requires'' that ''the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration of the term of office of a President and the inauguration of a new President. | | | Under the 1947 act any person serving as acting President can be supplanted or bumped from the acting presidency by an officer higher in the order of succession. | | | The purpose of this hearing is to explore the need for changes to the Presidential Succession Act, the Federal statute that governs the transfer of power in the event that there is a simultaneous vacancy in the office of the presidency and the vice presidency. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju96287.000/hju96287_0.HTM
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| | Another approach Amar suggested would be to skip over the speaker and the Senate president pro tem so that succession would pass directly to the president's appointed Cabinet. | | | This "assistant" vice president would be confirmed by the Senate and live outside the Washington area, Amar said. | | | Yale Law professor Akhil Amar said the succession law faces practical, political and constitutional problems. |
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0903/incapacitated.asp
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| | Ben's Guide (9-12): The Order of Succession |
| | The 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1967, provides for procedures to fill vacancies in the Vice Presidency; further clarifies presidential succession rules. |
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| | AMAsearchdetail |
| | The Presidential Succession Act of 1886, passed during the administration of Grover Cleveland, established that, in the event of the president's and vice president's removal, death, resignation, or inability to serve, the heads of the executive departments—in the order of the creation of their offices—would rise to the office of the president. | | | This law remained in effect until 1947, when another presidential succession act was passed, providing that the Speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate would be next in the line of presidential succession after the vice president. | | | Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, and died on September 19, 1881. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=6114
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| | USATODAY.com - Congress still not ready for disaster |
| | It places the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate next in line after the vice president, followed by the secretary of State and the heads of other cabinet departments in order of their creation. | | | Instead, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in May pushed through the Senate Judiciary panel he heads a constitutional amendment giving states a choice on how to fill House and Senate vacancies, either by appointment or special elections. | | | Sherman also would add senior ambassadors to assure a successor in the event an attack killed all those living in Washington. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-09-congress-survival_x.htm
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| | General History: government |
| | A terrorist attack of epic proportions destroys the Capitol Building and all government officials within it including all senior memebers of the executive branch, all justices of the Supreme Court, all senior officers of the military, and all members of Congress. | | | However, if it happened, I would still probably have to assume the powers of acting President immediately since everyone in the line of succession was dead. | | | What would be the effect upon your succession to the presidency if you were a naturalized citizen who had been born in Germany to Jewish parents who had immigrated to this country to avoid the Holocaust during WWII? |
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http://experts.about.com/q/674/3500205.htm
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| | Succession |
| | 1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect | | | 1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession | | | 1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/s/succession.html
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| | Presidents Health, disability and presidential succession |
| | Report of the Miller Center Commission on the Presidential Disability and the 25th Amendment | | | Papers on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: By Six Medical, Legal and Political Authorities | | | Unchosen Presidents : The Vice-President and Other Frustrations of Presidential Succession |
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| | Sherman Seeks to Amend Presidential Succession |
| | Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday to amend the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 to prevent a member of a different political party than the president from ascending to that office if the commander-in-chief were killed. |
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| | Succession - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence. | | | Succession may be thought of as a more general term for any possible progression, as in chord progression or harmonic progression, though not all simultaneity successions are harmonic progressions. | | | In politics, succession refers to the ascension to power by one politician or monarch after another, usually in a clearly defined order. |
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| | Government Resources |
| | Eligible to Act, U.S. Code, Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 (Cornell |
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