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Format:

Book

Author:

Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005.

Title:

All the laws but one : civil liberties in wartime / William H. Rehnquist.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Knopf, 1998.

Description:

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

Discusses the Lincoln administration's prosecution of civilians before military tribunals (as well as of the alleged conspirators in the Lincoln assassination), the criminalization in World War I of speech inciting resistance to the draft, the forcible relocation of Japanese-Americans in World War II, and the imposition for nearly three years of martial law in Hawaii.

Subjects:

Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Habeas corpus -- United States -- History.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.

Contents:

Mr. Lincoln goes to Washington -- Lincoln suspends habeas corpus -- Taney rebukes Lincoln -- Seward and Stanton -- Burnside and Vallandigham -- Copperheads in the heartland -- The Indianapolis treason trials -- David Davis and the Supreme Court -- The arguments in the Milligan case -- The Milligan decision -- Lincoln is assassinated -- Confederates in Canada -- Booth's accomplices -- World War I -- World War II: Japanese internments -- Postwar criticism -- Hawaii under martial law -- Inter arma silent leges.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

98012641

ISBN:

0679446613

9780679446613

0679767320

9780679767329

Other Number:

38550385

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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1

Control Number:

63147

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Call Number:

342.73085 Rehnquis