HELP! ! for US CONSITUTION.?

Question

In the case of an elected President dying or resigning from office, who becomes president?
Where in the Consituion is this info located?

Answer 1

The line of succession is mentioned in three places in the Constitution: in Article II, Section 1, in Section 3 of the 20th Amendment, and in the 25th Amendment.

Article II, Section 1 makes the Vice President first in the line of succession and allows the Congress to provide by law for cases in which neither the President nor Vice President can serve. The current such law governing succession is the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. § 19).

Answer 2

1 Vice President
President of the Senate Dick Cheney
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
3 President Pro Tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
5 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
7 Attorney General Michael Mukasey
8 Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
— Secretary of Agriculture Charles Conner (acting)‡
— Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez (non-natural)†
— Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao (non-natural)†
9 Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt
10 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
11 Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters
12 Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
13 Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
— Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gordon Mansfield (acting)
14 Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ††

Answer 3

article 2 section 1 paragraph 6

Answer 4

The Vice President..its an obvious answer...

Answer 5

After the veep, it's not in the constitution, it in the "Presidential Succession Act."

Just think, Robert Byrd's third in line. Yikes.

Answer 6

Read the constitution and do your own homework.

It's really worth learning in any case.

Heck, I'll even give you a link to the Constitution.

Answer 7

the list is in the amendments to the constitution. Look for "presidential succession."