Acting President of the United States is an individual who legitimately exercises the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States even though that person does not hold the office in their own right. There is an established order in which officials of the United States federal government may be called upon to take on presidential responsibilities if the incumbentpresident becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, or is removed from office (by impeachment by the House of Representatives and subsequent convictionby the Senate) during their four-year term of office, or, if a president has not been chosen before Inauguration Day, or if the president-elect has failed to qualify by that date.
Acting President of the United StatesExecutive branch of the U.S. Government Executive Office of the PresidentStatusActing Head of State Acting Head of GovernmentMember ofCabinet Domestic Policy Council National Economic Council National Security CouncilTerm lengthSituationalConstituting instrumentUnited States Constitution
Presidential succession is referred to multiple times in the U.S. Constitution – Article II, Section 1, Clause 6, as well as the Twentieth Amendment and Twenty-fifth Amendment. The Vice President is the only officeholder named in the Constitution as a presidential successor. The Article II succession clause authorizes Congress to designate which federal officeholders would accede to the presidency in the event the vice president were unavailable to do so, which it has done on three occasions. The current Presidential Succession Act was adopted in 1947, and last revised in 2006. The succession order is as follows: Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then the eligible heads of federal executive departments who form the president's Cabinet, beginning with the
A lot of historians are unsure but the main theory is that the people were dissatisfied with years of poor harvest, old debt, and also high bread prices, this caused dissatisfaction with the French Monarchy
The main reason why <span>southern farmers opposed Hamilton's plan for the country was because they believed it would put too much financial power in the hands of the federal government, as opposed to states and individuals. </span>
