In the name of necessity : military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties / / Marouf Hasian, Jr.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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| Physical Description: | viii, 316 p. |
| Notes: | Paperback edition published 2012. |
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Table of 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.