In the name of necessity military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasian, Marouf Arif
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the genealogical origins of necessity and military necessity
  • The capture of Major André
  • Cultural amnesias and legal recollections : forgetting and remembering the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war tribunals
  • Abraham Lincoln and ex parte Milligan
  • The military trial of Major Henry Wirz
  • FDR, wartime anxieties, and the Saboteurs' case
  • General MacArthur's tribunal and the trial of General Yamashita
  • The legal and public debates over the necessity of Bush's military order
  • The future use of military tribunals.