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☆☆☆☆☆The Framers opposed choosing a President by popular vote because they felt that such a process would lead to "tumult and disorder." They also opposed choosing a President by Congress because it would put the President "too much under the legislative thumb."
An executive order
People say that the Vice President is "only a heartbeat away" from the presidency because the vice president is first in the order of succession. If the President's heart should stop beating, the Vice President takes over the office.
If the president dies or otherwise become incapacitated, the vice-president becomes president.
the influence and experience of recent vice presidents
Transferred to the vice president but not the office itself. ( gradpoint
Informed Citizens
The 12th Amendment which begins:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
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have the president appointed by the senate. (grad point)
It goes to Committee.
