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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications, Third Edition
John D. Feerick
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Description for The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications, Third Edition
Hardback. This new edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications updates John Feerick's landmark study with the Amendment's uses in the past twenty years and how those uses (along with new legal scholarship) have changed the Amendment and perceptions of presidential disability. Num Pages: 448 pages, 6 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 36. Weight in Grams: 704.
This new edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications updates John Feerick’s landmark study with the Amendment’s uses in the past twenty years and how those uses (along with new legal scholarship) have changed the Amendment and perceptions of presidential disability in general. In its formulation, the Twenty-fifth Amendment was criticized as vague and undemocratic, but it has made possible swift and orderly successions to the highest offices in the U.S. government during some of the most extraordinary events in American history. The extent of its authority has been tested over the years: During the Watergate crisis, ... Read more
This new edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications updates John Feerick’s landmark study with the Amendment’s uses in the past twenty years and how those uses (along with new legal scholarship) have changed the Amendment and perceptions of presidential disability in general. In its formulation, the Twenty-fifth Amendment was criticized as vague and undemocratic, but it has made possible swift and orderly successions to the highest offices in the U.S. government during some of the most extraordinary events in American history. The extent of its authority has been tested over the years: During the Watergate crisis, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823252008
SKU
V9780823252008
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About John D. Feerick
John Feerick is a professor of law at Fordham Law School and the occupant of the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service. He teaches and writes in areas of the Constitution, legal ethics, and conflict resolution. His books include the third edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications, and From Failing Hands: The Story ... Read more
Reviews for The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications, Third Edition
"The Twenty-Fifth Amendment was an instant classic when it appeared in 1976; this a revised and expanded third edition will prove equally indispensable. It is a learned and accessible examination of vital issues afflicting the presidency; a model history of how we amend the Constitution to respond to those issues; and a spur for reflection on the perennial challenges of ... Read more