Twenty-fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Earliest Applications - Softcover

Feerick, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823209997 ISBN 13: 9780823209996

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 1975

Synopsis

This book focuses on the Twenty-Fifth Amendment - its meaning, legislative history, and applications. The Amendment has been criticized for being vague and undemocratic. It has been praised for making possible swift and orderly successions to the presidency and vice presidency upon the occurrence of some of the most extraordinary events in American history. Its vice presidential selection feature has been recommended as the best method for selecting all Vice Presidents. The repeal of that feature and the abolition of the vice presidency have also been suggested. Moreover, throughout the Watergate crisis the Amendment was alluded to as affording a means by which a President could transfer Presidential power during an impeachment proceeding, and it was suggested as authorizing a Vice President and Cabinet to suspend, so to speak, a President during the period of impeachment trial before the Senate. Judging by all the attention the Amendment has received and by the number of presidential and vice presidential vacancies and illnesses which have occurred in our history, one can expect that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment will receive frequent application in the future of our country.

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Review

"... the best work on the subject." -Library Journal "John Feerick had much to do with the writing and passage of the bill, which also deals with the still un-tested problem of Presidential incapacity ... ornately detailed and footnoted, it is a valuable political document." -Boston Globe "A unique and useful reference." -Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

John D. Feerick is Professor and former Dean of Fordham Law School. In 1964 he was a member of the American Bar Association Conference on Presidential Inability and Vice Presidential Vacancy, the recommendations of which helped shape the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He served from 1987 to 1990 as Chairman of the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, the collected reports of which were published by Fordham University Press as Government Ethics Reform in the 1990s (1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823209997
• ISBN 13: 9780823209996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284