In the name of necessity [electronic resource] : military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties / Marouf Hasian, Jr.
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TextSeries: Rhetoric, culture, and social critiquePublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.Description: viii, 316 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 343.73/0143 22
- KF7625 .H37 2005eb
Paperback edition published 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index.
Introduction : the genealogical origins of necessity and military necessity -- The capture of Major Andr�e -- 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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