In the summer of 2026, North Meridian Review managing editor Wesley R. Bishop corresponded by email with John D. Feerick, professor emeritus and former dean of Fordham Law School, about the history and meaning of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Feerick was an important legal scholar and participant in the amendment's development. His 1963 Fordham Law Review article, “Presidential Succession and Inability,” helped bring renewed attention to the constitutional problem of presidential inability, and he subsequently worked with Senator Birch Bayh and others during the amendment's development. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment, ratified in 1967, addresses presidential succession, vacancies in the vice presidency, and the temporary transfer of presidential powers and duties when a president is unable to discharge them. In this interview, Feerick discusses the amendment's origins, the concerns that shaped its drafting, and the ways its provisions have been understood and misunderstood over the decades.