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President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
No sitting or former United States president has been formally charged with treason; the historical record shows serious treason prosecutions have involved other high officials and rare, narrowly defi...
of 1853 was a targeted territorial adjustment that completed and clarified portions of – border left ambiguous by the , adding the southern strips of and New Mexico and altering boundary articles of t...
The 1848 , sealed in the , transferred roughly half a million square miles of Mexican territory to the for about $15 million and reshaped North America after the . The 1853–54 was a much smaller, $10 ...
The constitutional definition of treason — “levying War” or “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort” — is tightly constrained by the Constitution and by a small set of landmark cases a...
Wartime laws expanded government power to prosecute speech and disloyal conduct: World War I’s Espionage Act and the Sedition Act authorized fines up to $10,000 and prison terms up to 20 years and pro...