Dartmouth Events

Unfit to Serve? Presidential removal, the 25th Amendment and the Latin American experience.

Wednesday, February 3  |  4:30pm |  register at https://dartgo.org/unfit_to_serve

Recent events in US politics have stirred debate regarding presidential incapacity to serve, and whether use of the 25th Amendment infers that incapacity is restricted to physical or meant to be more encompassing.  While these discussions are relatively novel in the US context, they are not in the Latin American one. Just last November, the Peruvian Congress acted to remove the then-incumbent president on ‘moral incapacity’ grounds.

Join Wentworth Professor of Government John Carey, and Professor John Polga-Hecimovich ’04 of the US Naval Academy, for a conversation regarding the Latin American constitutions that  allow legislatures to remove presidents for “moral incapacity”, the controversy surrounding these clauses, and the political consequences of their use.

Part of the ’Round the Girdled Earth Series. Organized and hosted by The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College.