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| 08 Apr 2014 10:28 PM |
SECTION 1.
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. In the absence of a Vice President, or the removal from office, or his death or resignation, a line of succession shall take place. This line of
succession shall be put forth based apon the creation of the offices of the Executive Branch, and the Legislative Branch. The Presidential Line of Succession is as follows:
1. Vice President of the United States 2. Speaker of the House 3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4. Secretary of State 5. Secretary of the Treasury 6. Secretary of Defense 7. Attorney General 8. Secretary of the Interior 9. Secretary of Commerce 10. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 11. Secretary of Transportation 12. Secretary of Homeland Security
SECTION 2.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. Whenever there is a vacancy in one of the Executive Cabinet
level offices, the President shall nominate an individual who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote from the United States Senate.
SECTION 3.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written
declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
SECTION 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of the Executive Cabinet 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 the Executive Cabinet 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 two days after the receiption of the latter written declaration, they then must determine, by a 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.
SECTION 5.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two months of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the
office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as
President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
SECTION 6.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by two-thirds majority of both Houses of the Congress.
Elizabeth Mackio Speaker of the House Representative from New York
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