Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
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
Appendix A Section- by- Section Development of the Twenty- Fifth Amendment
Appendix B Constitutional Provisions on Succession
Appendix C Statutory Succession Laws
Appendix D Presidential and Vice- Presidential Vacancies
Appendix E Times During Which the Speaker, the President pro tempore, or Both Were from a Party Different from the President's
Appendix F Rule Number 9 of the Republican Party
Appendix G Selected Sections of the Charter and Bylaws of the Democratic Party
Appendix H Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to House Speaker John W. McCormack
Appendix I Schedule of Gerald Ford for August 9, 1974
Appendix J Twenty- Fifth Amendment Memo Prepared for President Gerald R. Ford
Notes
Bibliography
Index