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But those looking to the nation's Founders, or the Constitution they framed, for answers to such a crisis will come up empty-handed. There is nothing in the Constitution about what to do if a president refuses to step down when his term expires, according to three historians and a constitutional law professor.

"No, the Framers did not envisage a president refusing to step down or discuss what should be done in such a situation," said Yale historian Sean Wilentz. "There's obviously nothing in the Constitution about it."

"This is a contingency that no one would have actively contemplated until this fall," said historian Jack Rakove, a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

"We [historians] pride ourselves in saying, 'Don't worry, this has happened before,' or, 'Worry, this has happened before,'" said Jeffrey A. Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. "Right now, if all your historians can say is, 'We are in entirely uncharted waters,' I don't even know how the rest of that sentence ends.