Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of ...

The current succession statute, however, contains the legislative offices, with the Speaker first and the president pro tem next, followed by a line of cabinet officers in the order in which the ...

FORMALIZING through a constitutional amendment the statutory role of the vice president in our constitutional system is one reform that could help to defuse tensions and stabilize the current ...

While it may not be an important job in terms of actually running the Senate, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 placed the president pro tempore after the vice president and speaker of the ...

Should something happen to the president pro tempore, the person next in line to take over the reins of government would be the speaker of the House. In 1886, the succession order was changed ...

the U.S. Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 list 15 specific cabinet officials in the presidential order of succession. This lesson looks at these 15 cabinet departments in ...