The President & The 25th Amendment

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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When a monarch dies, power stays in the family. But what about a president? It was a tricky question that the founders left mostly to Congress to figure out later. Lana Ulrich, of the National Constitution Center, and Linda Monk, constitutional scholar and author of The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, explain the informal rules that long governed the transition of presidential power, and the 25th Amendment, which outlines what should happen if a sitting president dies, resigns, or becomes unable to carry out their duties. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we have made a lot of episodes of Civics 101 since the show started in 2017.
0:08.7	And at any one time, we've got a list of 20 to 30 different topics that we're either
0:14.0	already working on or want to do soon.
0:17.2	And yet there are a few topics we keep coming back to over and over.
0:22.0	Yeah, I mean, elections and voting, those are two I can think of.
0:26.7	You could probably fill a dozen episodes with things about the election process, the politics
0:31.4	of voting, of representation.
0:33.4	Yeah, there's one topic we've talked about multiple times on the show because it keeps
0:36.9	coming up in the news during the Presidencies of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
0:41.5	Have you emailed any members with the executive branch about the President's health
0:45.9	and the president's point?
0:47.9	He's a city-capacitated?
0:48.9	Well, I think that we have got to be very careful.
0:53.4	He needs to start acting presidential.
0:56.0	It has to do with presidential power and checks on that power.
0:59.6	The fish stinks from the head, plain and simple.
1:04.3	And so I believe the president is dangerous and should not hold office one day longer.
1:11.2	But it's not impeachment.
1:13.1	It has to do with the responsibility of the president, the vice president, and the cabinet
1:18.2	to ensure we have a leader who is able to do their job.
1:21.7	I'm not saying he's not a danger, I do believe that there's grave risk there, but we've
1:26.7	got 13 people.
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