Military tribunals and presidential power : American Revolution to the war on terrorism

Author(s)

• Fisher, Louis

Bibliographic Information

Military tribunals and presidential power : American Revolution to the war on terrorism

Louis Fisher

University Press of Kansas, c2005

• : pbk

Other Title

Military tribunals & presidential power

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Offers coverage of wartime extra-legal courts. Focusing on those periods when the Constitution and civil liberties have been most severely tested by threats to national security, Fisher critiques tribunals called during the presidencies of Washington, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Truman

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Details

• NCID: BA90007485
• ISBN:
  • 0700613765
• LCCN: 2004025521
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lawrence, Kan.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 279 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KF7661
  • DC22 : 343.73/0143
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Military courts -- United States -- History