Twenty-fifth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1967, establishing the succession to the presidency in the event of the president's death, resignation, or incapacity.

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Example Sentences

"We May Need the Twenty-Fifth Amendment if Trump Loses," blares a headline at the New Yorker.

From Salon

Next, Brian Kalt, Michigan State University College of Law professor and author of Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, joins Dahlia to clarify what’s really on the table as Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin introduce a bill that would form a commission to rule on the president’s fitness for office.

From Slate

In "The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Earliest Applications," by John D. Feerick, the author notes that the framers of the Constitution did not spend much time at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 on the subject of presidential succession:

From Salon

Marty Lederman, a law professor at Georgetown University, shared the video on Twitter and wrote that “this must be precisely the sort of thing Congress had in mind when it ratified the Twenty-fifth Amendment.”

From Slate

How did he go from so terrified that he was talking about the Twenty-fifth Amendment to backslapping with Trump on the way out the door?

From The New Yorker