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

By: Hasian, Marouf ArifContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric, culture, and social critiquePublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005Description: viii, 316 pISBN: 9780817386603 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States | Civil rights -- United States | Necessity (Law) -- United States | Military necessityGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 343.73/0143 LOC classification: KF7625 | .H37 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : the genealogical origins of necessity and military necessity -- The capture of Major Andre -- 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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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 Andre -- 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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