The Presidential Report Card

• •Take Care Clause → Integrity, Delivers
• •The Oath → Rule of Law
• •Appointments Clause → Appointments
• •Commander-in-Chief Clause → War & Military

• •Chief Diplomat → Diplomacy
• •Chief of State → Chief of State
• •25th Amendment, Fitness → Health Transparency

• •Antiquities Act (1906) + public-trust → Commons
• •Immigration & Nationality Act (1952) → Immigration
• •War Powers Resolution (1973) → War & Military
• •Stafford Act (1988) → Crisis
• •Inspector General + Ethics in Govt Acts (1978) → Integrity

• •Crisis Leadership → Crisis
• •Economic Management → Economy
• •Moral Authority → Integrity, Rule of Law
• •International Relations → Diplomacy, War
• •Equal Justice for All → Delivers, Immigration

• •Documented Facts, Laws signed, court findings, federal statistics, and dated actions.
• •Parts of the Job, Every category on the card is a duty, a role, or a recognized expectation.
• •Institutional Change, Whether they strengthened or damaged the norms, watchdogs, and guardrails that predate and outlast a president's term.

• •Party or Ideology, A conservative win and a liberal win are graded the same way; color is good/bad for the working class, never party.
• •Private Morality, Only public breaches (lying under oath, abuse of office), never whose-bedroom-business.
• •Armchair Diagnosis, We're not doctors; we score health transparency, not “is he too old.”
• •Events, We score decisions, not events. If the president didn't start it, only the response is graded. Did it happen to him, or did he do it? (e.g. 9/11 → not scored; the Iraq War → scored.)
• •Vibes, If it can't be traced to a record (including a poll), it doesn't go in.

Weighing the Evidence

Every president starts each criterion at the same par (a middle-of-the-pack C-to-B, mid-70s to low-80s), because the job is hard and, on most duties, most presidents clear the bar. Sourced findings then move the number up or down from there. Par is identical for everyone, so no one is graded on a curve, or a grudge.

Across categories: equal weight, the same method the C-SPAN Historians Survey uses: it rates ten leadership qualities and weights each one equally. We keep the two most poll-driven categories (Health Transparency, Chief of State) lighter. Within a category: a criterion counts more the more it's core to the duty and provable from the record. A formal criminal finding outweighs a pardon.

What we grade, and how much each category counts, both trace outside us: the categories to the Constitution, statutes, and historian surveys, and the equal weighting to the C-SPAN survey's method. What stays our call is the finer grain: par, and the points each finding moves. All of it is shown openly in every card's drill-down, so you can check the math.