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Page ix
... Lincoln acted illegally when , on April 27 , 1861 , reacting to Baltimore mobs interfering with troop trains moving from Philadelphia to Washington , he authorized the Commanding Gen- eral of the United States Army to suspend the writ ...
... Lincoln acted illegally when , on April 27 , 1861 , reacting to Baltimore mobs interfering with troop trains moving from Philadelphia to Washington , he authorized the Commanding Gen- eral of the United States Army to suspend the writ ...
Page xviii
... Lincolns and Churchills make use of autocratic powers and procedures in defense of our precious liberties . * Since I believe in the essential Tightness of this harsh prediction even more profoundly today than I did fifteen years ago ...
... Lincolns and Churchills make use of autocratic powers and procedures in defense of our precious liberties . * Since I believe in the essential Tightness of this harsh prediction even more profoundly today than I did fifteen years ago ...
Page 3
... Lincoln . The date was July 4 , 1861 . The occasion was a message to Congress , a remarkably candid account of certain extraordinary measures which he had been forced to adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had ...
... Lincoln . The date was July 4 , 1861 . The occasion was a message to Congress , a remarkably candid account of certain extraordinary measures which he had been forced to adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had ...
Page 8
... Lincoln and Stalin or Churchill and Hitler should be obvious . It is important for the American citizen of 1948 to realize that his super - government of the past few years was nothing new or novel . Indeed , the leading characteristics ...
... Lincoln and Stalin or Churchill and Hitler should be obvious . It is important for the American citizen of 1948 to realize that his super - government of the past few years was nothing new or novel . Indeed , the leading characteristics ...
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... Lincoln said : " Often a limb must be amputated to save a life , but a life is never wisely given to save a limb , " he was grounding a number of unconstitutional and dictatorial actions on the law of necessity . The Constitution and ...
... Lincoln said : " Often a limb must be amputated to save a life , but a life is never wisely given to save a limb , " he was grounding a number of unconstitutional and dictatorial actions on the law of necessity . The Constitution and ...
Contents
11 | |
III | 33 |
2305 | 61 |
THE STATE OF SIEGE IN HISTORY LAW AND THEORY | 79 |
THE FIRST WORLD | 91 |
X | 135 |
XI | 151 |
CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN 19191939 | 173 |
CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES | 207 |
THE CIVIL | 223 |
FIRST WORLD | 240 |
THE NEW DEAL AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION | 255 |
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN | 265 |
XIX | 288 |
INDEX | 315 |
XIII | 184 |
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