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Proposed Amendment On Presidential Inability And Vice-Presidential Vacancy, John D. Feerick

Twenty-Fifth Amendment Articles

In 1965, Congress submitted to the states a constitutional amendment to remedy a glaring flaw in the Constitution: the absence of comprehensive procedures for presidential succession and inability and vice-presidential vacancy. This Article, written shortly after Congress proposed the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, sets forth the text of the proposed amendment and explains the thinking of it sponsors.

Presidential Succession And Inability, Committee For Economic Development. Research And Policy Committee

Reports

Publication argues for the ratification of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Includes dissenting opinions.

The Constitutional Right Of Association, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

It has been accurately observed that we are a nation of joiners. Alexis de Tocqueville, as early as 1835, concluded that "in no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used, or more unsparingly applied to a multitude of different objects, than in America." Tocqueville noted the ubiquitous character of American voluntary associations.

In 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed, for the first time in unmistakable terms, the status of freedom of association as a fundamental right.

The occasion for this affirmation was an attempt by the State of Alabama to oust …