When a president dies while in office, and a vice president. Who takes over control of the Goverment?
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It goes:\n1. Speaker of the House\n2. President Pro Tempore\n3. Secretary  of State\n4. Secretary  of Treasury\n5. Secretary  of Defense\n6. Attorney General\n\nThat's all I remember
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At the federal level:\n\nAll executive branch members except for the President and Vice President.  If the vice presidency is vacant, the president may appoint a vice president under the 25th Amendment.\n\nAll judicial branch members (justices/judges).\n\nSenators and Representatives are traditionally elected, though state governors can fill Senate vacancies by appointment.  ALL Representatives are elected, without exception.
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The President of the Senate is technically in charge of the running of the Senate. The Vice President holds this position, but usually the Vice President is not in the chamber. In his absence, the President pro tempore acts as the President of the Senate.\n\nThe only important function the President of the Senate serves is, if there is a tie vote, he casts the deciding vote. It has happened fairly infrequently, but often is important on controversial bills.
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Dick Cheney is the Vice President.
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Depends, IN America, the head of state is President. He hold the final power of desicion making. He is the head of legislative and excutive.\nIN ENGLAND, the head of state is Prime Minister, he take all the meetings working, and give information to his King(Queen). Prime Minister make the desicion, but act under the signature of QUEEN. Prime Minister is head of excutive not the head of legislative.
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The speaker of the house is the third in line to become president if both the president and vice president are incapasitated.
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Although the Vice President is President of the Senate, VPs rarely show up except for ceremony, if they believe a tie-breaking vote will need to be cast, or if it a hot issue that they want to be there for.  Generally, it falls to the President Pro Temp, who is the senior-most ranking member of the Majority to handle the duties, and they delegate it out on rotation to all members of the Senate taking shifts.
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The Queen is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. teh reason for both is so that not one person would hold ALL of the power, I think they found this out the hard way years ago. I believe Kings who were tyrants, they held all the power so they did as they chose top do, thats what makes the US President unique, in that he is both head of state and of government. I think we just figured out how to fix the country..LOL
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The Vice President is still a part of the team elected to serve the current term.  He is therefore still in office and it would be his elected responsibility to complete the term as President after the President dies no matter how short of a term that may be.  The terms of the Executive Branch  are very clearly outlined by our Constitution and the helm of the government would be handled according to the law that has been set for it.
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Executive authority (powers) are delegated in the Constitution of the United States.  Primarily these delegated powers (in terms of the executive branch are to the President of the United States.\n\nThe Vice President is also President of the Senate, but this has little power unless a vote in the Senate is tied, then the Vice President (as President of the Senate) can cast the deciding vote.\n\nIn line of accession he can replace the president if the President dies, is incapacitated, or impeached.  \n\nOther than that he has no real power.  \n\nAny advice he provides or jobs he does, are at the direction of the President.  The President can shut the Vice President off from any real contact as to what is going on, at any time.\n\nWhile in the past Vice Presidents have traditionally more or less stayed out of things and remote, there has been a growing trend for the President to provide more tasks for the Vice President, but they are always under the thumb of the President.\n\nThe relationship between President Bush and Vice President Cheney go back many years and part of that relationship is one where the Vice President advises the President far more than has typically occurred.  However, the Vice President is only one adviser among many.\n\nIn short, the premise of your questions is wrong.  The President is in charge and has all of the authority relative to the Vice President.
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Clause 2 of the 25th amendment:\n\n"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."\n\nThis is the closest mention of anything in the Constitution.  I would assume that if he hasn't been inaugurated yet, the President-elect would have more leniency in picking his next VP with no vote by Congress.
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First of all, the Constitution granted Congress the power of "declaring what officer shall then act as President" in the "case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President." It didn't say Congress could declare someone to actually be the President, only someone to act as the President. This might be considered a distinction without a difference, mere semantic trickery. However, when John Tyler became the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor after William Henry Harrison died only a few weeks into his term in 1841, Tyler was dubbed "His Accidency," and many questioned whether he was legally President or merely someone empowered to "discharge the powers and duties of the said office" until the next election. Tyler firmly established that he was to be regarded as a "real" President, and tradition has been to consider Vice-Presidents who have assumed office after the deaths of Presidents to be Presidents themselves, but it was not until the passage of the twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution in 1967 that this "tradition" was established by law: \n\nThe question of deciding who should become President if something should happen to both the chief executive and the Vice-President was left to Congress to decide at a later date. It didn't take long: In 1792 Congress passed a Presidential Succession Act which provided that after the President and Vice President, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (i.e., the person selected to preside over the Senate when the Vice-President is absent) would serve as President. If there was no President Pro Tempore of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives would serve, and the line of succession would then proceed through the cabinet officers in the order their departments were created.
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The Vice President has official duties, and he has unofficial duties. The official duties are spelled out in the Constitution.\n\nThe Vice President is the presiding officer of the Senate, though he may designate this duty to the President Pro Temp (ie-the senior Senator of the majority party), where he may cast a vote only if the tally is tied; he also is the replacement for the President if there is death or incapacitation.\n\nSince the 1970's, for various reasons, the Vice President has taken on a number of unofficial duties at the discretion of the President as a sort of utility Cabinet Member without portfolio. For instance, VP Mondale was used very often to maintain liaison with our Euopean allies, VP Bush spent a lot of time negotiating for the President in Central and South America, VP Quayle was head of the Council on Competitiveness which tried to discover means for American companies to improve profitability within the framework of government regulation, VP Gore was in charge of Reinventing Government, and VP Cheney led an Energy Task Force.\n\nIn addition to these, there are also a large number of other, semi-official tasks that the Vice President always seems to get saddled with, such as attending the funerals of heads of state that we didn't really like, throwing out the first pitch for baseball teams that no one cares if they win, and judging pie eating contests for flavors that only our grandmothers still like. (the last part was a joke so please don't take this as an attack on Vice President Cheney).
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Section 1)  If the President leaves office through either his death or his resignation, then the Vice President becomes president (notice the first section doesn't require him to be sworn in, even though it's customary).  \n\nSection 2)  If there is no Vice President (for whatever reason), then the President nominates someone for Vice President; that person must be confimed by a majority (51%) of the House of Representatives.\n\nSection 3)  If the President signs a letter saying that he is not able to do his job for a time, the duties of the President are performed by the Vice President; he takes his office back by signing a letter declaring that he is able to resume his job.  This section is all about VOLUNTARILY giving up power for a time; it has been invoked on a number of occasions when a president has had to have surgery, for instance.\n\nSection 4)  is about INVOLUNTARILY surrendering power; If the Vice President AND a majority of the cabinet (or another body that Congress selects) determine that the president is incapable of fulfilling his duties, they deliver a letter to the President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House declaring this fact, at which time the Vice President assumes the duties of the President as *acting* president.  If the President later sends a letter to these same parties stating that he is fit to carry out his duties, he will re-assume his duties unless the VP and the majority of the cabinet (or the other selected body) sends another letter to the President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker, saying that the President is not capable of performing his duties (this would be the second letter stating this); if that happens, the Congress assembles, and if a two-thirds vote of BOTH houses agrees with the VP and the Cabinet/ other body, then the VP takes over the duties of the President.\n\nAll this came about after the shooting of John F. Kennedy; had he lived, but been incapacitated, there would have been no constitutional basis for then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to have assumed the powers of the president; this amendment clarified the succession of the presidency in the event that the president was incapacitated but not dead.  It also provided for the appointment of a new vice president (Johnson served as President at least three years without a Vice President after becoming President when Kennedy was killed, thus putting the Speaker of the House 2nd in line for quite some time).
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if they can prove that it was accidental and not deliberate then the vice-president would be charged and convicted of manslaughter.   He would also probably have to resign his position.   That means that the new president would be the next in line of constitutional succession which is the Speaker of the House.  He would then appoint a vice-president.
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appointed! (B - sorta ... but it's not just that easy)\n\nArticle II, section 1, clause 6 of the Constitution, the ''Succession Clause,'' specifies that in the event of simultaneous vacancies in the presidency and the vice presidency, or the simultaneous ''inability'' of those officers to act, Congress may by law specify what ''Officer'' shall ''act as President until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.'' If a statutory successor is serving as acting President, Congress may, but is not required to, call a new presidential election.
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You dont want a single person in government becoming too powerful, that is why you need to put restrictions on just how long they can hold power.\n\nGeorge Washington set a precident on only serving two terms and then stepping down.  After that all following presidents only served two terms (althgough some tried for more) until FDR.  Franklin Roosevelt was elected for 4 terms in a row (dying a few months into his 4th).\n\nAfter FDR, the 22nd ammendment was passed in 1951 limiting the president to two terms.\n"No person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of president more than once."\n--22nd ammendment to the US constitution.