Top Ten U.S. Presidents

Here is my list of the top ten best Presidents in the history of the United States:

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Martin Van Buren
4. Calvin Coolidge 
5. William Howard Taft
6. Warren G. Harding
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. John F. Kennedy
10. Grover Cleveland

My main factors in these rankings are the President's willingness to adhere to the U.S. Constitution, willingness limit federal power, and practical achievement of actually resisting increase in federal authority. In other words, I prefer Presidents that increase freedom. Some of these Presidents were actually successful in decreasing the size and scope of the U.S. Government power.