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... give them ; but I hope that some suggestions may be found in the following pages which may prove not unworthy of your consideration . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , WILLIAM WHITING . PREFACE TO MILITARY GOVERNMENT . THE ...
... give them ; but I hope that some suggestions may be found in the following pages which may prove not unworthy of your consideration . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , WILLIAM WHITING . PREFACE TO MILITARY GOVERNMENT . THE ...
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... give them jurists able and willing to abide by standing laws , and thus to restore ( as far as is con- sistent with public safety and the secure tenure of conquest ) the blessings of civil liberty and a just ad- ministration of laws ...
... give them jurists able and willing to abide by standing laws , and thus to restore ( as far as is con- sistent with public safety and the secure tenure of conquest ) the blessings of civil liberty and a just ad- ministration of laws ...
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... gives Con- gress power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces . " The 16th clause declares that Congress shall have Pleourts Martial * See Benet . on Military Law 11 . * Dehart on Military Law ...
... gives Con- gress power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces . " The 16th clause declares that Congress shall have Pleourts Martial * See Benet . on Military Law 11 . * Dehart on Military Law ...
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... gives Congress power " to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to carry into execution the foregoing powers , and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government . of the United States , or in any department ...
... gives Congress power " to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to carry into execution the foregoing powers , and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government . of the United States , or in any department ...
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... gives ( Art . 65 ) the power of appointing them to general officers commanding an army , or colonels commanding a separate department , and institutes inferior courts martial ( Art . 66 ) ; limits * Commonwealth vs. Irish , 3 S. & R ...
... gives ( Art . 65 ) the power of appointing them to general officers commanding an army , or colonels commanding a separate department , and institutes inferior courts martial ( Art . 66 ) ; limits * Commonwealth vs. Irish , 3 S. & R ...
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Military Government of Hostile Territory in Time of War (Classic Reprint) William Whiting No preview available - 2017 |
Military Government of Hostile Territory in Time of War Dr William Whiting No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 19 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 87 - ... law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 50 - States, then in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that tJie inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States ; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof, and the citizens of the rest of the United States, shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue...
Page 44 - And can there be any doubt, that when the executive branch of the government, which is charged with our foreign relations, shall in its correspondence with a foreign nation assume a fact in regard to the sovereignty of any island or country, it is conclusive on the judicial department?
Page 47 - Florida (except the inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany Mountains and of such other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as...
Page 31 - ... a supplemental code is absolutely needed. 7. That unwritten code is Martial Law, as an addition to the written military code, prescribed by Congress in the Rules and Articles of War, and which unwritten code all armies, in hostile countries, are forced to adopt, not only for their own safety, but...
Page 50 - An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose...
Page 40 - These provisions show that congress has 'the power to provide for the trial and punishment of military and naval offenses in the manner then and now practiced by civilized nations; and that the power to do so is given without any connection between it and the 3d article of the constitution defining the judicial power of the United States; indeed, that the two powers are entirely independent of each other.