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Constitution of the United States Of America - Amendment 25
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do their job, the Vice President becomes the President. This can happen for just a little while, if the President is just sick or disabled for a short time.
The Bayh-Celler proposals, which formed the foundation of the 25th Amendment, refined the processes of declaring a President incapable of fulfilling the duties of office and filling a Vice Presidential vacancy.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment has been invoked (used) six times since it was added to the Constitution. Section 1 has been used once; Section 2 has been used twice; and Section 3 has been used three times.
Section 4 addresses the case of an incapacitated president who is unable or unwilling to execute the voluntary declaration contemplated in Section 3; it is the amendment's only section that has never been invoked.
(The 25th Amendment, Section 4 is the Amendment Asst Director of the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, was referring to using when he attempted to talk Trump Cabinet officials into going along with him on to remove the President from office, going as far as offering to wear a 'wire' to illegally spy on / tape the President secretly to get material to use against him to force him from office under Article 25.)
SECTION 4 STATES:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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This article of the United States, based on both Joe Biden's obvious physical / mental issues (if not his growing number of scandals / crimes as well) will surely play a huge role in who the DNC manipulates Biden to take on as his 2020 VP running mate.
Biden needs a strong, experienced running mate to help give him every opportunity win while simultaneously giving the American people someone they can have confidence in to step in and take over as President if need be the day after Biden takes his oath of office.
In elections, VPs usually don't matter THAT much...but in THIS election Biden's pick as VP could be as important as Biden himself, and could basically be considered a 3rd Presidential Candidate in a 2-Person election.
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do their job, the Vice President becomes the President. This can happen for just a little while, if the President is just sick or disabled for a short time.
The Bayh-Celler proposals, which formed the foundation of the 25th Amendment, refined the processes of declaring a President incapable of fulfilling the duties of office and filling a Vice Presidential vacancy.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment has been invoked (used) six times since it was added to the Constitution. Section 1 has been used once; Section 2 has been used twice; and Section 3 has been used three times.
Section 4 addresses the case of an incapacitated president who is unable or unwilling to execute the voluntary declaration contemplated in Section 3; it is the amendment's only section that has never been invoked.
(The 25th Amendment, Section 4 is the Amendment Asst Director of the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, was referring to using when he attempted to talk Trump Cabinet officials into going along with him on to remove the President from office, going as far as offering to wear a 'wire' to illegally spy on / tape the President secretly to get material to use against him to force him from office under Article 25.)
SECTION 4 STATES:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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This article of the United States, based on both Joe Biden's obvious physical / mental issues (if not his growing number of scandals / crimes as well) will surely play a huge role in who the DNC manipulates Biden to take on as his 2020 VP running mate.
Biden needs a strong, experienced running mate to help give him every opportunity win while simultaneously giving the American people someone they can have confidence in to step in and take over as President if need be the day after Biden takes his oath of office.
In elections, VPs usually don't matter THAT much...but in THIS election Biden's pick as VP could be as important as Biden himself, and could basically be considered a 3rd Presidential Candidate in a 2-Person election.
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