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variation30 -> RE: Obama retakes Oath of Office (1/22/2009 3:19:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: housesub4you
Actuall O'bama was not the first to have the vows done incorrectly. There hahave been i think 4 presidents who had to redo the vows. Just about every TV news has the list of the others who retook the vows.
As for behind closed doors, if that where really true than none of us would be writing about it.
If this is the first you have heard of this what cave have you been in, it has been on the news the second he was done with the vows on the 20th.
And to all those saying he was not President, because of the mistake, read the WHOLE document, not just the parts that support your POV. He became President at noon on 20th, with or without the vows taking place.
AMENDMENT XX
Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933.
Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment was superseded by section 3.
Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Section 2.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Section 3.
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Section 4.
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
Section 5.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
Section 6.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
I may have read the constitution a few times. I've also checked all presidential succession acts. I had a thread on this political oddity but bitter, overweight women do not good moderators make. I've yet to see anything that said that the president elect becomes the president until he takes the oath (granting him execution of office article 2 section 1). so if he's late then it seems the line of succession goes through the presidential successon act...though that person has no power, just a title. I love fun little technicalities.
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