Presidential succession and the 25th Amendment at 50

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🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Akhil Reed Amar of Yale University and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute explain how succession works and how it can be improved. It’s time for another edition of “Ask Jeff”! Submit your questions anonymously at bit.ly/askjeffpodcast or tweet them using #AskJeffNCC. Submissions close on Sunday, February 19. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the Peopleand our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Kevin Kilbourne and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Dan Meyer and Lana Ulrich. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Hello We the People listeners. It's time for another edition of Ask Jeff and has there ever been a better time?
0:06.0	Send me your questions about the Constitution and I'll do my best to answer them in a future episode.
0:11.0	Go to bit.ly forward slash
0:14.0	ask Jeff Podcast to submit your questions.
0:17.1	That's bit dot y forward slash ask Jeff podcast.
0:21.8	You can also tweet them using the hashtag Ask Jeff Podcast
0:27.0	Podcast.
0:28.0	Podcasts.
0:31.0	Podcasts for sending your questions. It's an amazing time to educate ourselves about the Constitution,
0:34.3	and I look forward to hearing from you.
0:37.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:48.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate
0:54.2	information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. This week we
0:59.1	explore how the Constitution organizes presidential succession,
1:03.5	spurred by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
1:06.7	and the illnesses faced by President Dwight Eisenhower,
1:10.2	the 25th Amendment to the Constitution,
1:12.4	was ratified on February 10th, 1967,
1:16.4	Happy 50th Birthday, 25th Amendment.
1:19.5	The 25th Amendment deals primarily with cases of presidential incapacitation and
1:23.7	we'll have more on that later but it's not the only law that governs our
1:26.9	succession procedures article 2 and the 20th amendment also provide guidance in
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