Hasian, Marouf Arif.

In the name of necessity military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties / [electronic resource] : Marouf Hasian, Jr. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005. - viii, 316 p. - Rhetoric, culture, and social critique .

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.
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Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States.
Civil rights--United States.
Necessity (Law)--United States.
Military necessity.


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