so this last piece on chapter tens survey of the executive branch I'm highlighting the line of succession for the presidency in the event that the president and vice president should somehow become incapacitated obviously if the president becomes incapacitated the vice president assumes the power of the presidency note that this is not detailed well I should say this is detailed in the Constitution what is not detailed in the Constitution that's what happens if the president and the vice-president should become incapacitated for whatever reason some simultaneously this is not in the Constitution but it's laid out in a congressional Act of Succession from 1947 and it's a pretty basic process obviously if the president should become incapacitated then the vice president becomes president if both are incapacitated then the Speaker of the House of Representatives would take that role the Speaker of the House of Representatives is elected by a majority of the members of the House and usually it's the result of the party controlling the majority and then that person essentially conducts the affairs of the House of Representatives as the most representative the next most representative institution of leadership in the various branches of government this Act of Succession leads the Speaker of the House to assume executive powers as I said in the event of the president vice president become incapacitated if the president vice president and Speaker of the House were to become incapacitated then the Senate Pro president pro tempore would assume those responsibilities the president pro tempore is also elected by the majority of the Senate and Kentucky the daily affairs of the Senate now the official president of the Senate is the vice president of the United States but in the scenario he or she would be incapacitated along with the Speaker of the House and of course the president so this temporary Senate President who is essentially conducting the daily affairs of the Senate on a routine basis with Dunn assumed executive power if for some reason in an almost unimaginable scenario the president vice-president Speaker of the House and Senate President pro tempore II were incapacitated then we follow the order of cabinet secretaries and they ordered that those departments or the executive branch were created and so the oldest institution the oldest cabinet position is the state department or Secretary of State Secretary of Treasury secretary of defense attorney general and so on and so forth all the way to the most recently established Department of the cabinet which is the Department of Homeland Security so in that scenario of the department that Secretary of Homeland Security would assume executive powers assuming all of the other 15 cabinet positions plus the president pro tempore and speaker Laos and vice president as well as the president were incapacitated it's hard to imagine a scenario where all of these people would be impacted but dare I say you can imagine these State of the Union address for example where all of these people are assembled in the same room of the Capitol building the House chamber that god forbid something like this could unfold but in that instance even always during a State of the Union address one member of the president's cabinet is always taken to an undisclosed location for the duration of that assembly it may be the Secretary of Treasury or the Attorney General it always changes every January when that State of the Union address is given but as a precaution one person would be removed from that specific location in order to accommodate a scenario where this could materialize potentially so it's just a little caveat to the sort of structure and process of the executive branch of government that needed notation but again it is not the detail of the Constitution rather statutory law that lays out the line of succession for President of the United States