The “bumping” provision may run afoul of the requirement of the Presidential Succession Clause that “such Officer shall act accordingly [as acting president], until the Disability be removed ...

While it may not be an important job in terms of actually running the Senate, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 placed the president pro tempore after the vice president and speaker of the ...

but the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 set the modern line of succession if something should happen to the president and he or she cannot undertake his or her duties. First in line for the ...

under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. Neither scenario has happened in American history.

which was outlined in the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 and updated during the Truman administration’s Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

per the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. Previous designated survivors have said they were informed of their role days or weeks before the event was to take place.

the U.S. Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 list 15 specific cabinet officials in the presidential order of succession. This lesson looks at these 15 cabinet departments in ...

There are a number of defects and gaps in Ghana’s 1992 Constitution that could cause constitutional crisis in the future. One ...

The tradition calls for a member of the president's cabinet to be absent from speeches to joint sessions of Congress to ensure the line of succession stays alive.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is this year’s designated survivor, according to a White House official, retreating from Washington to an undisclosed location during President Donald Trump’s ...