Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability.

Amendment XXV stipulates that the vice president becomes president of the U.S. should the incumbent president die, or resign the office, or has been deposed through impeachment; establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled and provides for the transfer of presidential powers and duties to the vice president, either on the president's initiative or the initiative of the vice president and the majority of the cabinet. In either case of presidential absence, the vice president becomes the acting president until the incumbent president's return to office.

The twenty-fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was submitted to the states on July 6, 1965, by the 89th Congress, was adopted on February 10, 1967, the day that the requisite thirty-eight (38) states had ratified the amendment.^[1]