How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-25th-amendment-actually-works-and-what-nobodys-ever?utm_term=.nvzBPkJW8 … #longreadspic.twitter.com/K19496T6g9
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Before 25, one of the wildest things was the fact that if the VP died, left office, or became president ... the office was just left vacant.
Often then, through the 1960s, the country had no vice president.
Then, JFK was assassinated, and everyone, once again, took these issues seriously. The amendment happened:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-25th-amendment-actually-works-and-what-nobodys-ever?utm_term=.utYme0Xvj#.aoBJy1Mw0 …
The first parts of the amendment — about the VP becoming president and the president nominating a VP — were relatively straightforward.
Although, there were issues: Sen. Keating from NY, for example, wanted there two be two VPs. https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-25th-amendment-actually-works-and-what-nobodys-ever?utm_term=.utYme0Xvj#.aoBJy1Mw0 …pic.twitter.com/yATDp3ZgaD
As to disability, though, the big questions weren't answered: “What is the extent of the term ‘disability’ & who is to be the judge of it?”
That question was asked by John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware, in the constitutional debates in 1787.https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-25th-amendment-actually-works-and-what-nobodys-ever?utm_term=.utYme0Xvj#.aoBJy1Mw0 …
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