What is the significance of the twenty fifth amendment?

Answer 1

Besides explicitly providing that the Vice President can be sworn in as the new President in the event of presidential disability, the 1967 amendment also establishes the procedure for the appointment and confirmation of a new Vice President when the office becomes vacant. It provides for a temporary disability of the President by notification to the senior members of Congress.

Answer 2

It states that instead of the Vice-President becoming "Acting President" upon the death or disability of the President, they actually become the President and sets a chain of people who would take over if both the President and the Vice-President were to die.

Answer 3

Most significantly, it establishes the means to provide a new US Vice President.

Section 1 of the amendment states that if the US President is removed by death, impeachment, or resignation, the Vice President will become the new President.

Section 2 states whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President may appoint a new vice president, to be confirmed by a majority of both houses of Congress.

Section 3 states that whenever the President advises the president pro tempore of the senate and Speaker of the House that he cannot discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president may then discharge such powers and duties as acting president (for the period of disability).

Answer 4

The twenty-second amendment states that the President of the United States cannot be elected more than twice. But it does not apply to anybody who is currently in office when this Article takes effect.

Answer 5

The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.