Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror

Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror Praca zbiorowa Wydawca: University Press of Kansas Data wydania: 2020 ISBN: 9780700629367 Liczba stron: 392 Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: At the end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin Milligan and his coconspirators of fomenting an insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators. This book argues the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War to the present.