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An Interesting "Legal" Coup... Section Four of the 25th Amendment (ratified on February 10, 1967) permits the Vice President, together with a majority of the members of the President's cabinet, to declare the President incapacitated. This scenario, where the Vice President and the President's...

Was a coup d'etat possible at any given moment in the history of the USA? When is a possible POD? How would it have developed? How about a plausible scenario in which a President could seize dictatorial powers? I'd prefer if the scenarios did not begin with a nuclear holocaust in the US or...

It's the Orange Free State (singular), not "Orange Free States." There were two independent Boer states in the late nineteenth century: The Orange Free State and its northern neighbor, the South African Republic (a.k.a. the Transvaal). Of the two, the Orange Free State was probably the more...

That's exactly what I want.

That's right. The leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) was Sir Oswald Mosley. He was accused of conspiring to help German invaders despite the fact that: he had fought the Germans in the first war, he had called for adequate air defences in his maiden speech in Parliament in 1919 (at a...

Union, Soon, With Britain... Part One Nazi Germany develops an effective long-range, heavy bomber early on in World War Two. At Dunkirk, the bombers see their first action. Only 295,000 (as opposed to 335,000 in OTL) Allied soldiers make if off the beaches, weakening the Army fairly...

In either the 19th or 20th centuries, reunify the United States and the United Kingdom. This may be caused by war, but it may not be the result of a war (in other words, neither nation can conquer the other, it has to be achieved peacefully). The nation must either have a stable, democratic...

It was extremely impractical and it would have taken far too long for either of the two territories to become states, that's why it was never implemented in OTL. No. The United States in 1804 split Louisiana into two parts: the District of Louisiana (renamed Territory of Louisiana in 1805)...

If you want the timeline to be more plausible, I suggest the POD occur in the winter of 1812. Remove the odd new states you included and any change in Presidency prior to this point is unneeded. Have Isaac Brock fall ill and never capture Hull's force. Have the militia cross the river at...

60,000 free inhabitants. I doubt that part of Pennsylvania had even a sixth of that in 1792. That's not going to work. The federal government was: A) basically incapable of carrying out or even making a threat at the time, B) basically controlled by Virginia and Pennsylvania at the time, and...

His assassination BEFORE the first real fighting of the war had been fired, however, would have changed the entire course of the war, not just the course of the post-war years as in "Must and Shall."

I have some questions: (1) Why is there a Department of Propaganda? Why is it accepted? Why was it formed? (2) Why does a protege of Thomas Paine have any say in the government? The Founding Fathers had a lasting dislike for Tom Paine... (3) What accounts for the increase in population...

Assuming there was a plot, obviously. It has never been proven that there wasn't...

Abraham Lincoln was travelling by train to the capital for the inaugural ceremonies in 1861. A guard assigned to the president-elect, Allan Pinkerton, uncovered a plot to kill Lincoln when the train arrived at the Calvert Street Station in Baltimore. He convinced Lincoln to leave the train early...

No, he didn't. Compare Anderson's attempt to the other third party attempts of the second half of the twentieth century and you'll see he did worse than the others (by a fairly significant amount): 1968: George Wallace - 9.9 million votes (12.9%) 1980: John Anderson - 5.7 million votes...

Had the bombing campaign been persued more effectively and, dare I say, ruthlessly, the US would have had a much easier time of winning that war. This would have to include the removal of any and all targeting restrictions in the late '60s. This means the systematic targeting and destruction of...

Anyone want to take a shot at how the world ended up breaking into factions like this following WWII? Notes: - The NA, the UES, and the Moscow Pact are international treaty organizations. - The CAAS and China are single nations. - The NA and CAAS are generally allied. - The UES and...

Roosevelt dies in 1945. Wallace assumes the Presidency, until he is impeached: (r.) stands not for resignation, but for removal. For one reason or another due to the POD, Curley is next in line and becomes President upon his removal. No. Taft died of natural causes, as in OTL. That's...

Yeah, perhaps. But then again, I could simply screw with the numbers and add the 116th Armored Brigade on top of the 81st Armored Brigade. That would give the CNS two armored brigades against a single brigade of airborne light infantry, plus the element of suprise, plus greater intelligence...

Once again, the details of (1988 - 1992) remain to be worked out... June, 1992… A shoulder-launched missile sent the helicopter carrying President Michael S. Dukakis back to the grounds of the White House in a fiery ball. All aboard were killed, including the President and his wife. The...