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The use of martial authority by U.S. presidents in various contexts, including war, insurrection, and labor unrest, and the consequences for civil liberties and federalism.
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...
During Reconstruction the Insurrection Act was principally wielded by President Ulysses S. Grant to suppress organized white supremacist violence—most prominently the Ku Klux Klan—after Congress expan...