Why is it important to know the order of succession is a president dies in office?

Answer 1

When a president dies, it is important for someone to take his place. That should be the vice president. However, if an attack happened and the vice president dies with the president, there is a protocol for who gets the job next. That person has to have the nuclear launch codes and needs to take charge of the military. A president has a big job and someone needs to be our leader.

Answer 2

A clear succession is important in any political system, to avoid confusion and chaos. In a democratic system, it is particularly important, as modern democratic systems are highly complex, and a lack of a clear procedure to replace key members of the government results in near-paralysis of the government.

Here are some major reasons why it is good to have a clear Presidential succession process:

• The Office of the President is the official Commander-in-Chief of the armed services. That means, they are the ultimate leader in command of the military. Should this leader be lost (even temporarily), the military can easily receive conflicting commands, and it is not clear to them who is (ultimately) in charge. An effective Military requires a strong and well-defined chain-of-command; otherwise, it is prone to making uncoordinated decisions which usually end poorly (if not disastrously).
• The President is responsible for signing bills into law - without a clear designated person to fill the Office of the President, laws cannot come into effect, or there will be significant confusion as to the legality of any laws signed by various persons, each claiming to be Acting President.
• The President is the equivalent of the CEO of the entire Executive Branch of the US Government. Conflicting problems between various departments must be adjudicated by the President.

The bottom line here is that the President is the leader of much of the US Government. Should the present President be incapacitated (or removed), there must be a clear and quick method of replacing the person holding the Office of the President, or the government will be unable to function. The system of Checks and Balances (the inherent conflicts between the various Branches of Government) and the design of the Executive Branch require a leader in the Office of the President; without such a leader, the system breaks down, as the inherent conflicts are not resolvable, and the system moves in multiple directions (or, into complete paralysis).

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to ponder why a paralyzed government is a bad thing.

Answer 3

The presidential succession list, or order, is important because the government needs to be able to fill essential jobs in case the president is unable to serve his or her term for any reason.

Answer 4

Of the three branches of government, only the Executive Branch assigns all rights and powers to a sole (single) officer, and without a presidential succession plan, it is possible for (1) the executive branch to become powerless if there is nobody to fill the office of President of the United States via succession until the next scheduled "general election", and (2) since the executive department officers and all the judicial branch officers (judges) are appointed or recess commissioned by the President, then without a President, two-thirds of the government can be negatively impacted such that courts and executive departments have no officers appointed or recess commissioned when vacancies occur in the interim while the office of the president remains vacant itself because of no presidential succession capabilty.

As such, presidential succession is an essential element of maintaining a balanced federal government (three branches).

In fact, the office of vice president was created for succession purposes because sole power and authority for the executive branch rests with only one officer (ie, The President of the US), and the subsequent Succession Clause in the Constitution was the means the Framers provided for extending presidential succession beyond the office of vice president.

Regards,

Timothy D. Nestved

President

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Answer 5

Creates a list of who would become president in order

Answer 6

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