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<DIV><SPAN class=356201505-29012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Point
taken. This was an interesting exercise in what-it, although it turned out that
the premise was flawed. but the exercise was fun.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=356201505-29012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Now a
new question, inspired by -- but independent of -- the previous
discussion.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=en-us>Siarlys</SPAN> <SPAN class=356201505-29012009>(our resident
constitutional scholar)</SPAN><BR><SPAN lang=en-us>Please elaborate on this
statement:</SPAN> </FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=en-us>Succession to the office of president, beyond the vice president,
is established by a congressional</SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us>statute, adopted
under the authority of Amendment XX (1933) and Amendment XXV (1967).
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<DIV><SPAN class=356201505-29012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>What
does the amendment say and what does the statue say? i thought there were
several layers of congressional leaders in line before the cabinet, not just
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size=5>Zvi Freund</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P>
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<DIV>My point is, until they either DO resign to become president, or pass, the
office does not fall to anyone else. So talking about the Secretary of State or
any other cabinet officer (they are all in line, in order of how old their
position is), becoming president for a few minutes, is nonsense.</DIV>
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<DIV>If a major crisis had erupted on Jan 20 around noon, either Bush or Obama
or both would have handled it. Nobody else.</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:16 -0500 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Siarlys</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please elaborate on this
statement:</FONT></SPAN> </P>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Succession to the office of
president, beyond the vice president, is established by a
congressional</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>statute, adopted under the authority of Amendment XX (1933) and
Amendment XXV (1967). </FONT></SPAN></P></UL>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>The congressional statute you
refer to (which I saw before starting this thread but thought was part of the
amendment), states explicitly that the Speaker or President pro temp must
resign before assuming the presidency. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>greenBubble</FONT></SPAN> </P>
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