Presidential Inability: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 100 [and Others] Relating to the Inability of the President to Discharge the Powers and Duties of His OfficeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 241 strani Considers constitutional amendments and legislation to provide for the orderly devolution upon the Vice President of Presidential powers and duties if the President is unable to discharge them, and a resumption by the President upon the passing of his inability. |
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