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" 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 25
by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pages
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An Introduction to Municipal Law: Designed for General Readers and for ...

John Norton Pomeroy - Law - 1883 - 626 pages
...be referred to soon, speaks of it in this manner : " By it every citizen, instead of reposing under known and fixed laws as to his liberty, property, and life, exists with a rope around his neck, subject to be hung up by a military despot at the next lamp post, under the sentence...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 48

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 996 pages
...and penalties of courts-martial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...subject to be hung up by a, military despot at the Lutl,er v. Borden ct al. next lamp-post, under the sentence of some drum-head courtmartial. (See Simmon's...
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Civil Rights, 1959, Volumes 3-4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Civil rights - 1956 - 1408 pages
...and penalties of courts-martial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...despot at the next lamp-post, under the sentence of seme dram-head court-martial. ( See Simmons's Pract. of CourtsMartial, 40. ) See such a trial in Hough...
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Civil Rights, 1959: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ..., Parts 3-5

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Civil rights - 1959 - 1506 pages
...and penalties of courts-martial or extraordinary commissions, and for all kinds of supposed offences. By it, every citizen, instead of reposing under the...at the next lamp-post, under the sentence of some dram-head court-mart ial. ( See Summons's Pract. of ConrtsMartial , 40. ) See such a trial in Hough...
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