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RUSHING PELL-MELL INTO MADNESS?: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and its Critics
On the surface, the 25th Amendment is a perfect mechanism for providing a stable transition of Presidential power. But that's not what early state ratification critics thought. And it's not how Hollywood writers oft envision it. When debating the 25th amendment to the US Constitution, one state legislator called it rushing "pell-mell into madness." Another said it did not complete the very purpose it intended and should go back to Congress for fixing. And still another said it has a huge hole around the vice presidency.
These state quibbles were enough for a scare, but the states ratified…
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