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In the name of necessity [electronic resource] : military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties / Marouf Hasian, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
LOC classification:
  • KF7625 .H37 2005
Online resources:
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.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

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 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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