• In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump supporters stroking over the US Capitol building, there is a demand by US congress to                either      impeach President Trump or invoke the 25th Amendment.
• The Twenty-fifth Amendment (1967) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability.
• It was introduced after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 25th Amendment was proposed by Congress on July 6, 1965, and ratified by the states on Feb 10, 1967.
• It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled.
• It also provides for the temporary transfer of the president’s powers and duties to the vice president, either on the initiative of the president alone or on the initiative of the vice president together with a majority of the president’s                   cabinet.
• In either case, the vice president becomes acting president until the presidential powers and duties are returned to the president

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• 1. The traditionally observed process of succession in the event of the death of the president, like the vice president would succeed to the office and it even also introduced a change regarding the ascent of the vice president to president should the latter resign from office.
  2. The amendment addresses vacancies in the office of the vice president. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica amendment has 4 important parts:
  3. The amendment set forth the formal process for determining the capacity of the    president to discharge the powers and duties of office.
  4. The amendment requires the vice president and the cabinet to jointly ascertain if the president is unable to declare his/her incompetence