those consort names again

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Tue Sep 2 19:21:08 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:

> While these scenarios accurately reflect the provisions of the =
> Presidential Succession Act of 1947, there is real uncertainty as to =
> whether the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate =
> can constitutionally be in the line of succession.  That's right, we =
> have purposefully structured our line of succession to maximize =
> uncertainty at the very point when some catastrophe has removed both the =
> President and the Vice President.  This concern, and some others, is =
> spelled out at =
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_successio=
> n#Constitutional_concerns.
> =20<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_successio=n#Constitutional_concerns.=20>


Or
*http://tinyurl.com/5wp5ah*
to avoid those nasty wrap characters that some mailers stick into text.

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