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The six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — head of government — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 7 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.
Third run of this dive, measuring survivorship — how many presidents have had to renew each emergency. It is arithmetic on dates and parses no text, which is a choice: the second run lost its central measure to a parse that read amending orders as declaring ones.
The six base dives and the other 6 overlay dives are listed on the full record.
Only four of the emergencies in force are still in the hands of the administration that switched them on. Sixteen have been renewed by two presidents, nine by three, nine by four, five by five — and one by eight.
The 44 emergencies in force, grouped by how many different presidents have held office since each was declared. Yellow marks the only group that has not yet outlived its author.
An emergency is renewed by whoever is in office when the year is up, which means most of this list is signed by people who had no part in declaring it. That is the mechanism behind every other number on these three pages: the pile grows because ending one requires an argument that the threat is over, and renewing it requires a page.
The fifth of seven overlay dives on the full record, and the third run of this dive — after Donald Trump and Joe Biden. All three read one table of forty-four and ask a different question of it: what is in force, what was inherited, and how many hands each has passed through.