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AP U.S. Government 1.3 Institutions of National Government. What did the Twenty-fifth Amendment do?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by the electoral college The ultimate state

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school Yeah alright what the twenty fifth amendment do sat

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around all day and watch tv What did it do

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Aren't human potential answers roman numeral time present terms you're

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all right Well the twenty fifth amendment ratified in nineteen

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sixty seven emerged from the heated debate following president kennedy's

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assassination Let's see which of these roman numerals will lead

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us on the path to success young did the twenty

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fifth amendment one make the speaker of the house first

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in the line of succession to the presidency Hold your

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horses mister speaker The vice president is first in line

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for the president suddenly become unfit to serve or did

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though Yeah one is dead Was the twenty fifth amendment

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responsible for two limiting the president to two terms in

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office No no that was the twenty second amendment Ratified

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nineteen fifty one is a reaction to president roosevelt's Four

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consecutive terms in office like he was basically tiger woods

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in ninety nine o two's out as well In the

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twenty fifth amendment three established the procedures for transferring power

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To the vice president should the president die resign or

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be removed from office Yes number twenty five laid out

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the rules by which the vp can become president as

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well as how they go about appointing a new vp

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Should something happen to the old one so three and

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four are in line to succeed Would the twenty fifth

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amendment have five reformed the electoral college system Well that

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was actually the twelfth amendment which was passed after some

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troubles during the seventeen ninety six and eighteen hundred elections

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were looking at you john adams so three and four

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correct That means the answer is d following kennedy's assassination

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everyone in washington groom or concerned about a succession plan

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especially with the rise of cold war weaponry capable of

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launching a devastating attack on the capitol sounds like a 00:02:00.441 --> [endTime] recipe for disaster and success

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