13 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 17

• • THE AMERICAN VICE-PRESIDENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a letter appearing in your current issue, Prof. H. M. Burr calls attention to a certain passage in the Fundamental Law of the American Constitution as presumably overlooked • in the section of my Usages of the American Constitution, in which I maintain that the Vice-President was originally " intended, in the event of a President's death, to become Aeting President only, and not a full President.

If he will do rue the honour to read my book, he will discover that the passage he quOtes is the foundation of my argument.—

' I -am, Sir, &c., W. Hoammr... 1 High Grove, Welwyn Garden City.