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At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sente
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In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil libert
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
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This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power.
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Military Tribunals and Presidential Power
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