What situations was the Twenty-fifth Amendment enacted to address?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the Twenty-fifth Amendment as allowing for a clear line of presidential succession and as establishing procedures for filling the vice presidency if it should become vacant.
2, Describe the Twenty-fifth Amendment as establishing procedures for removing a president who has become incapacitated.
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The Twelfth Amendment
a. abolished the Electoral College. b. guaranteed that the winner of the national popular vote would also win the electoral college. c. provided for casting separate Electoral College votes for president and vice president. d. lowered the voting age to eighteen. e. extended suffrage to the African American population.
The _________ is the only formal leadership position in the House of Representatives that is written into the Constitution
A) House minority leader B) House parliamentarian C) president pro tempore D) Senate majority leader E) Speaker of the House
Who opposed the motor voter registration law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1993?
A. The Religious Right opposed it, fearing that it would benefit the Libertarian wing of the GOP. B. The Republicans opposed it, fearing that it would benefit the Democratic Party. C. The Texas state legislature opposed it, fearing that they would be incapable of implementing it. D. President Bill Clinton opposed it because of several unnecessary provisions within it.
The first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was appointed in what year?
a. 1790 b. 1865 c. 1900 d. 1981 e. 2001