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Yes: over the 20th century the Democratic and Republican parties underwent a major, multi-decade realignment on race and regional coalitions. The change was gradual — driven by New Deal coalitions, ci...
The U.S. Constitution requires a president to be a "natural born Citizen," at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years . Legal and scholarly sources agree that "natural born" means citizen...
Southern white voters began a measurable, decades-long shift from the Democratic Party toward the Republican Party starting in the mid-20th century, with as parties realigned over civil rights and sta...
A small minority of Republicans voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964: six Republican senators voted “nay” in the Senate cloture/final passage votes, and a minority of House Republicans opposed t...
The Goldwater Rule, adopted by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973, forbids psychiatrists from offering professional diagnoses of public figures whom they have not personally examined a...
The Goldwater Rule is an APA ethics annotation—Section 7.3—adopted in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental health of public figures they have not person...
The Goldwater Rule is an American Psychiatric Association (APA) ethics guideline adopted in 1973 that bars APA member‑psychiatrists from offering a professional diagnosis of a public figure without a ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, amid a bruising congressional fight and national debate, yet its passage did not prevent Lyndon B. Johnson from winning the presidenti...
The Republican Party began the post–Civil War era as the party most closely associated with Black voting rights and Reconstruction-era enforcement of the 13th–15th Amendments, but over the ensuing cen...
Most historians and political scientists say civil rights laws of the 1960s were a major catalyst — not the only cause — for the long-term shift of many white Southern voters and some politicians away...
The Goldwater Rule is an American Psychiatric Association ethical guideline that bars psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about a public figure's mental health without a personal examina...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
The Goldwater Rule is an ethical prohibition adopted by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 that tells APA members not to offer professional opinions about the mental health of public figures...
The Goldwater rule is an ethical guideline adopted by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about public figures they have not per...
Major U.S. professional bodies—most prominently the American Psychiatric Association—have formally limited their members from publicly diagnosing or declaring the mental fitness of public figures thro...
The materials supplied focus overwhelmingly on President Trump’s 2025 reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test and public debate about physical fitness policy, not on formal psychiatric evaluati...
National conventions have long been incubators for memorable political lines — from Warren G. Harding’s “founding fathers” turns-on-stage in 1916 to George H. W. Bush’s “Read my lips: no new taxes” in...
The Goldwater Rule is an ethical directive from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that bars psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental health of public figures unless ...
The Goldwater Rule is an ethical guideline adopted by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental health of public figu...
Psychiatric professionals who have publicly assessed Donald Trump without examining him argue they are acting on a “duty to warn” and point to public records, recorded behavior and clinical frameworks...