Question

Describe circumstances under which the 25th Amendment was twice enacted during the Nixon Administration.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies that the vice president becomes president (as opposed to acting president) if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office; and establishes procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president and for responding to presidential disabilities.The Twenty-fifth Amendment was submitted to the states on July 6, 1965, by the 89th Congress and was adopted on February 10, 1967, during the 90th Congress, the day that the requisite number (38) of individual states had ratified the amendment.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The circumstances such as removal of President, Nomination of Vice President, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, etc., 25th Amendment is amended.

• The 25th Amendment was proposed by  Congress and consent was given during the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.
• It provides the opportunity to replace the President or vice president in the event of death, resignation, or incapacitation.
• In 1970 during the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford used a similar procedure to replace Spiro Agnew as vice president and then he replaced Richard Nixon as president.