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President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809–1865)
Scholarly surveys and recent media assessments disagree on a single “worst” U.S. president, but several sources show Donald Trump ranked lowest in multiple 21st‑century polls of historians and experts...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
A president cannot unilaterally suspend federal elections under a claim of martial law; constitutional text, statute, Supreme Court precedents, and expert legal analyses all place the power to alter o...
Claims that “Trump is the 3rd best president in U.S. history” conflict with available expert rankings and public polls: multiple historian surveys place Donald Trump near or at the bottom of president...
The claim that *“Democrats (as a party) were behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and created racial terror systems (e.g. KKK, Jim Crow)”* is as framed: the historical record and the provid...
The first federal income tax in the United States was enacted to finance the Civil War in 1861–1862, but that tax was temporary and later repealed . The modern, permanent federal income tax system dat...
Donald Trump is the clearest candidate to have faced the largest volume of organized protests in modern U.S. history according to compiled timelines and scholarly framing: multiple datasets and narrat...
Assessments of whether Donald Trump is "the greatest President of all time" vary sharply by audience and metric; scholarly historical rankings place him near the bottom (e.g., last in a recent scholar...
Martial law has been declared repeatedly in U.S. history—most counts identify roughly 68 distinct instances, mostly at the state level—and presidential authority has been both asserted and constrained...
Complete, authoritative counts of every U.S. political figure ever assassinated are not presented in the supplied sources; available reporting instead catalogs notable cases (including four presidents...
Two presidents are routinely identified in the historical record as having put the United States under forms of martial rule: Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War (beginning in 1861) and Franklin D. R...
The assembled analyses make three core claims: national debt and deficits rose under Obama, Trump, and Biden but by varying magnitudes; Trump's term saw large increases driven by tax cuts and spending...
Yes — U.S. presidents have at times refused to enforce, ignored, or taken actions that effectively contradicted Supreme Court decisions and judicial orders. Historical examples most commonly cited are...
Historians and commentators disagree sharply about which U.S. president “did the most harm”; recent rankings and opinion pieces frequently place Donald Trump among the worst, citing threats to democra...
A war by itself does not legally permit the cancellation of U.S. federal elections: Congress fixed the presidential election date in statute in 1845 and precedent and experts say no president can unil...
Several U.S. presidents have faced accusations of violating the Constitution, with commentators and critics drawing parallels between modern allegations and historical episodes involving figures like ...
The President does not possess a clear, unchecked constitutional power to unilaterally declare nationwide martial law; by statutes, Supreme Court precedents, and political checks. Historical practice ...
Past U.S. presidents have invoked forms of martial authority and emergency powers in varied contexts—war, insurrection, labor unrest, civil-rights enforcement, and wartime national security—with mixed...
West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War chiefly because northwestern Virginians opposed Virginia’s 1861 decision to secede from the Union and long-standing regional grievances over repr...