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	The Federalist Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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].
		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.
		That the placement of congressional officers in the succession mechanism might be manipulated for partisan purposes was evident during the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
	www.fed-soc.org /Publications/Terrorism/presidentialsuccession.htm (3928 words)

	United States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The line of succession is mentioned in three places in the Constitution: in Article II, Section 1, in Section 3 of the 20th Amendment, and in the 25th Amendment.
		The act was contentious because of conflict between the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession (2863 words)

	Presidential Succession Act
		Presidential succession refers to the procedure for replacing the president (or vice president) in the event of death or some other form of removal.
		This reverence for executives played a part in the passage of the Presidential Succession Act of 1886, which dropped the politicians (president pro tempore and Speaker) from the line of succession and installed the cabinet secretaries in the order in which their departments were created.
		Following World War II, a new Presidential Succession Act of 1947 was passed, which placed the Speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate behind the vice president.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h745.html (557 words)

	Presidential line of succession
		The Presidential line of succession defines who becomes President of the United States of America, upon the death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment) of a current President.
		The Presidential Succession Act of 1792 established the President pro tempore of the Senate next in line of succession after the Vice President, followed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
		Though the formal list of Presidential succession only has 18 candidates, there are conspiracy theories about the existence of a much longer, secret list that ranks hundreds of politicians.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Presidential_line_of_succession.html (573 words)

	PH@school: The Living Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/constitution/constitution4e.html (281 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Line Dance. by Matthew Yglesias. September 24, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		But assuming a succession crisis would likely arise from a war or a terrorist attack, the secretaries of defense and homeland security -- and possibly the attorney general -- are likely better suited to fill the presidency.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/09/yglesias-m-09-24.html (1367 words)

	Presidential Succession Act of 1792 - dKosopedia
		Law passed in 1792 by Congress which provided for a line of Presidential succession in the case of an absence of both the President and the Vice President.
		According to the Act, the President pro tempore of the Senate would be first in line after the Vice President, followed by the Speaker of the House.
		They re-entered the line of Presidential succession in 1947 in the reverse (and current) order, with the Vice President being followed by the Speaker of the House, then the President pro tempore, then the Cabinet.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act_of_1792 (152 words)

	Congressman Brad Sherman - California 27th District - Press Release
		Sherman's bill, the Presidential Succession Act of 2002, or H.R. would require the President to file an official document with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, designating the third in line of succession as either the Speaker of the House or the House Minority Leader.
		Changing Presidential succession as Sherman proposes amends the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, not the U.S. Constitution.
		Presidential succession has not been debated in Congress in over a decade and the guiding statute was written in 1947.
	www.house.gov /sherman/press_room/press/pr_020228_presidential.htm (658 words)

	Changes in the Presidency
		Congress will act in 1947 to limit a president to two terms in office.
		1947 Presidential Succession Act defines the officials who would succeed to the presidency after the Vice President.
		This immunity extends to all acts within the "outer perimeter" of his duties of office.
	www.factmonster.com /timelines/presidency.html (448 words)

	Presidential Succession Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The initial version of the Presidential Succession Act was adopted in 1792.
		While the 1792 act was never implemented, and no one below the Vice Presidency has ever succeeded to the presidency, there were a number of instances where, had the President died, resigned, or been removed from office, the President Pro Tempore would have become the Acting President.
		As with the original 1792 act, the act of 1886 was never implemented during its 61 years, 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 become Acting President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act (1681 words)

	Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (Amended)
		(2) if his discharge of the powers and duties of the office is founded in whole or in part on the inability of the President or Vice President, then he shall act only until the removal of the disability of one of such individuals.
		(f) During the period that any individual acts as President under this section, his compensation shall be at the rate then provided by law in the case of the President.
		The legal reference to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is 61 Stat.
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/a_act1947now.htm (286 words)

	JoeUser.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Replacing the presidential succession act of 1792, the Presidential Succession Act of 1886 stated that no the death, incapacitation, or resignation of both the President and Vice President, the line of succession would fall to the Cabinet in the chronological order of each department's creation.
		It was superseded by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, and eventually by the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
		The Hatch Act, a compliment to the Morril Act, provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations under the direction of agricultural colleges in the various states.
	www.joeuser.com /Articles.asp?AID=75963 (804 words)

	Suppose no 25th Amendment, what would happen in 1976?
		The Presidential Succession Act of 1792 specifies that folowing the Vice President, the succession goes to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and then to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
		The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 put the President Por Tempore and the Speaker back into the succession ahead of the cabinet, but this time put the Speaker ahead of the President Pro Tempore.
		The 1886 Act made the calling of a special election in such a case optional at the discretion of Congress and the 1947 Act removed the special election proviso entirely.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=45014.msg988714 (2423 words)

	Sherman (CA27) - Op-Eds - PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION STATUTE SHOULD PROVIDE UNAMBIGUOUS CONTINUITY
		Unfortunately, the 1947 Act is ambiguous and we cannot afford ambiguity as to the identity and legitimacy of the President, particularly at a time of crisis.
		The 1947 Act is further flawed because it allows the presidency to be shifted to an opposing political party.
		Finally, third in the current line of succession is the Senate President Pro Tempore, a ceremonial position normally held by the longest-serving member of the Senate majority.
	www.house.gov /sherman/press_room/wida_oped_archive/052103RollCallPresidentialSuccession.html (910 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1941-1963 > Presidential Succession Act
		The original act of 1792 had placed the Senate president pro tempore and Speaker of the House in the line of succession, but in 1886 Congress had removed them.
		The 1947 law reinserted those officials, but placed the Speaker ahead of the president pro tempore.
		In 1886 Congress replaced the two congressional officials in the line of succession with cabinet officers, in the order of their agencies’ creation.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Presidential_Succession_Act.htm (440 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: History (President for a Day) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now, over one hundred and fifty years later, a ubiquitous bit of presidential apocrypha is the claim that someone else served as President during the twenty-four hour period between the expiration of Polk's term and the swearing-in of Taylor.
		Accordingly, in 1886 Congress passed a new Presidential Succession Act, one that removed the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the line of succession.
		The law in effect at that time was the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, which specified that the President Pro Tempore of the Senate was next in line for the presidency after the President and Vice President.
	www.snopes2.com /history/american/atchison.htm (1799 words)

	Order of Presidential Succession — Infoplease.com
		The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman, changed the order again to what it is today.
		The contemporary presidency: unity in the executive and the Presidential Succession Act.
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	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0101032.html (472 words)

	A.P.E. - The Backup Plan
		In case of death, resignation, or removal of the President, the Constitution states that he would be succeeded by the Vice President.
		This was a case clearly not foreseen by the Founding Fathers, and so the Constitution was amended.
		The 25th amendment, passed in 1967, stated that in cases of Presidential disability, the Vice President would take office until the disability was resolved.
	library.thinkquest.org /11492/convention/succession.html (246 words)

	Succession
		Succession : the gradual supplanting of one community of plants by another, thesequence of communities being termed a sere and each stage seral.
		According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, if the President of the United States is incapacitated, dies, resigns, is for any reason unable to
		Succession planning ensures that there are highly qualified people in all...
	www.mongabay.com /reference/environment/Succession.html (488 words)

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