The current succession statute, however, contains the legislative offices, with the Speaker first and the president pro tem next, followed by a line of cabinet officers in the order in which the ...

Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of ...

In our case, the current misunderstanding has arisen mainly from ill will because of the ambiguous and confused provisions for presidential succession in the 1987 Constitution. Both the ...

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 ...