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Book SynopsisThis new edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications updates John Feerick's landmark study with the Amendment's uses in the past twenty years and how those uses (along with new legal scholarship) have changed the Amendment and perceptions of presidential disability.
Trade Review"The Twenty-Fifth Amendment was an instant classic when it appeared in 1976; this a revised and expanded third edition will prove equally indispensable. It is a learned and accessible examination of vital issues afflicting the presidency; a model history of how we amend the Constitution to respond to those issues; and a spur for reflection on the perennial challenges of constitutional government. The capstone to John Feerick's labors as a constitutional scholar, historian, and public-spirited citizen, this book deserves the widest possible audience." -- -R. B. Bernstein New York Law School and City College of New York, and author of Amending America and The Founding Fathers Reconsidered "Feerick, author of this book, has been an active participant observer of the process of providing for presidential disability, presidential succession, and vice-presidential replacement. This work remains the definitive account of the adoption and implementation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment." -Choice
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Joel K. Goldstein Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments from the 1992 Edition Foreword to the 1976 Edition Preface to the 1976 Edition I The Problems 1. Presidential Inability 2. Vice-Presidential Vacancy 3. Succession Beyond the Vice Presidency II The Solution 4. Early Steps to Solve the Inability Problem 5. Senate Passage of S. J. Res. 139 6. Congress Acts 7. Ratification 8. An Analysis of Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Amendment III Implementations of the Solution 9. The Resignation of Spiro T. Agnew 10. The Substitution of Gerald R. Ford 11. The Resignation of Richard M. Nixon and Succession of Gerald R. Ford 12. The Installation of Nelson A. Rockefeller 13. The Uses and Non-Uses of Section 3 IV Continued Interest and Efforts to Change 14. Congressional Action 15. Symposia, Scholarship, and Commissions 16. Representation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment in Popular Culture V An Evaluation 17. Appraisal 18. Recommendations Appendixes A. Section-by-Section Development of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment B. Constitutional Provisions on Succession C. Statutory Succession Laws D. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Vacancies E. Times During Which the Speaker, the President pro tempore, or Both Were from a Party Different from the President's F. Rule Number 9 of the Republican Party 317 G. Selected Sections of the Charter and Bylaws of the Democratic Party H. Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to House Speaker John W. McCormack I. Schedule of Gerald Ford for August 9, 1974 J. Twenty-Fifth Amendment Memo Prepared for President Gerald R. Ford Notes Bibliography Index
