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

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Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus. Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations, arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals followin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Temas:
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Necessity (Law) > United States.
Military necessity.
Cours martiales et tribunaux d'enquête > États-Unis.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Nécessité (Droit) > États-Unis.
Nécessité militaire.
LAW > Military.
Civil rights
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Military necessity
Necessity (Law)
Menschenrecht
Militärgericht
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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