 By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the shield of known and fixed laws as to his liberty, property and life, exists with a rope round his neck, subject to be hung up by a military despot at the next lamp-post, under the sentence of some drum-head...  Executive Power - Page 25by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 446 pages
...and penalties of courtsmartial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...the sentence of some drum-head courtmartial. (See Simmons' Pract. of Courts-Martial, 40.) See such a trial in Hough on Courts-Martial, 383, where the... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...and penalties of courtsmartial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...the sentence of some drum-head courtmartial. (See Simmons' Pract. of Courts-Martial, 40.) See such a trial in Hough on Courts-Martial, 383, where the... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 814 pages
...supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the shield of known and fixed law, as to his liberty, property, and life, exists with...next lamp-post, under the sentence of some drum-head court martial. (See Simmons's Practice of Courts Martial, 40.) See such a trial in Hough on Courts... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...penalties of courts martial, or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the shield of known and fixed law, as to his liberty, property, and life, exists with a rope round his neck subject to be hung up... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 772 pages
...and penalties of courtsmartial, or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...court-martial. See Simmons's Pract. of Courts-Martial, 40. See such a trial in Hough on Courts- Martial, 383, where the victim on the spot was " blown away... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - Treason - 1863 - 292 pages
...and penalties of courts-martial, or extraordinary commission, and for all kinds of supposed offenses. By it every citizen, instead of reposing under the shield of known and fixed laws as to liberty, property, and life, exists with a rope round his neck, subject to be hung up by a military... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...and penalties of court martial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...next lamp-post under the sentence of some drumhead court martial. (See Simmons'« Pract. of Courts Martial, 40.) See such a trial in Hough on Courts Martial,... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...the court in a case determined by the Supreme Court of the United States: "By It," says the court, "every citizen, instead of reposing under the shield of known and fixed lavs as to his liberty, property, and lit1.1, exists with a ropo round his neck, subject to be hung... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Judges - 1879 - 460 pages
...delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Luther v. Bordcn, 7 How. 62, state what martial law is, and some of the incidents of...liberty, property, and life, exists with a rope round hia will of a military commander operating without any restraint, save his judgment, upon the lives,... | |
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