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Presidential Succession, is a term that describes the arrangements under which presidential authority in the United States may be transferred other than by means of the quadrennial presidential ELECTION. Specifically, it embraces those procedures that apply to cases involving the death, resignation, removal, or inability of a PRESIDENT or VICE PRESIDENT, and the death or failure to qualify of a president-elect or vice president-elect. These procedures are defined in three parts of the U. S. …

…that they would change important principles--stability and continuity--that have operated throughout the history of American presidential succession. Bibliography Crispell, K. R., and C. F. Gomez, Hidden Illness in the White House (Duke Univ. Press 1988); Feerick, John D., The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Fordham Univ. Press 1975); Glennon, Michael J., When No Majority Rules: The Electoral College and Presidential Succession,Congressional Quarterly (Dec. 1992); Thompson, K. W., ed., Papers on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-fifth Amendment (Univ. Press of Am. 1988).