Politics, law and medicine come together in any analysis of presidential disability. Constitutional questions arise in the interpretation and implementation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment. For these reasons, the Miller Center turned to a group of outstanding medical, legal and political authorities to broaden and deepen understanding on presidential disability. Contributors: Senator Birch E. Bayh, Jr.; Kenneth R. Crispell, M.D.; Paul B. Stephan III; C. Knight Aldrich, M.D.; Norman J. Knorr, M.D.; Daniel Harrington, M.D.; James F. Childress and Kenneth W. Thompson. The "Report of the Miller Center Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment" is included as an annex. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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No other source brings together so many...helpful perspectives on the controversial processes concerning the transmitting, yielding, withdrawal, and resumption of presidential authority...An excellent, succinct, and lucid report... Perspectives No other source brings together so many...helpful perspectives on the controversial processes concerning the transmitting, yielding, withdrawal, and resumption of presidential authority...An excellent, succinct, and lucid report... Perspectives
Kenneth W. Thompson is Commonwealth Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He Is the author of Cold War Theories.
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