Download or read book The War and Civil Rights with a Report on Civil Liberties in Wartime in England and U S A written by Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Melb and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The war and civil rights a survey with a report on civil liberties in wartime in England and U S A written by Australian Council for Civil Liberties and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom in Wartime written by American Civil Liberties Union and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Laws but One written by William H. Rehnquist and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security. Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and the rights of man, suspended the writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War--later in the war he also imposed limits upon freedom of speech and the press and demanded that political criminals be tried in military courts. During World War II, the government forced 100,000 U.S. residents of Japanese descent, including many citizens, into detainment camps. Through these and other incidents Chief Justice Rehnquist brilliantly probes the issues at stake in the balance between the national interest and personal freedoms. With All the Laws but One he significantly enlarges our understanding of how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution during past periods of national crisis--and draws guidelines for how it should do so in the future.
Download or read book Freedom Under Fire written by Michael Linfield and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great wars we have fought for the sake of liberty have been accompanied, without exception, by the most draconian assaults on individual rights. This is the theme of Michael Linfield's Freedom Under Fire, and he documents it with examples from every war since the American Revolution."--The Progressive "Linfield demonstrates conclusively, starting with the American Revolution and coming right up to the invasion of Panama, that the Bill of Rights is set aside by the government again and again, for reasons of 'national security.' He performs an important service, reminding us that liberty cannot be entrusted to the Bill of Rights or to the three branches of government, but only can be safeguarded by our own vigilance."--Howard Zinn
Download or read book Report of Delegte Conference on Civil Liberty in Wartime written by National Council for Civil Liberties (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Rights in America written by Christopher W. Schmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.
Download or read book Local Civil Liberties Committees Reports 1941 1942 written by American Civil Liberties Union and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defense of Our Liberties written by American Civil Liberties Union and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriotic Addresses in America and England 1850 1885 on Slavery the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Russell Sage Foundation. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Government and the Evolution of Civil Liberties in Wartime 1861 1945 written by Jeffrey J. Roby and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Cause of Liberty written by William J. Cooper, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas—antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans—white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South. Through these differing and sometimes competing perspectives, the contributors address crucial ongoing controversies at the epicenter of the cultural, political, and intellectual history of this decisive period in American history. Coeditors William J. Cooper, Jr., and John M. McCardell, Jr., introduce the collection, which contains essays by the foremost Civil War scholars of our time: James M. McPherson considers the general import of the war; Peter S. Onuf and Christa Dierksheide examine how patriotic southerners reconciled slavery with the American Revolutionaries’ faith in the new nation’s progressive role in world history; Sean Wilentz attempts to settle the long-standing debate over the reasons for southern secession; and Richard Carwardine identifies the key wartime contributors to the nation’s sociopolitical transformation and the redefinition of its ideals. George C. Rable explores the complicated ways in which southerners adopted and interpreted the terms “rebel” and “patriot,” and Chandra Manning finds three distinct understandings of the relationship between race and nationalism among Confederate soldiers, black Union soldiers, and white Union soldiers. The final three pieces address how the country dealt with the meaning of the war and its memory: Nina Silber discusses the variety of ways we continue to remember the war and the Union victory; W. Fitzhugh Brundage tackles the complexity of Confederate commemoration; and David W. Blight examines the complicated African American legacy of the war. In conclusion, McCardell suggests the challenges and rewards of using three perspectives for studying this critical period in American history. Presented originally at the “In the Cause of Liberty” symposium hosted by The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, these incisive essays by the most respected and admired scholars in the field are certain to shape historical debate for years to come.
Download or read book Civil Liberties in Wartime written by David Masci and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the Bush administration and Congress acted forcefully to deter future incidents. A new law was passed giving the government more authority to conduct surveillance and track Internet communications. The administration also detained more than 600 possible suspects and announced it might use military tribunals to try alleged foreign terrorists. But civil libertarians say the tough, new procedures abridge fundamental constitutional rights like due process and the attorney-client privilege. Some media-watchers, meanwhile, contend that journalists are not aggressively reporting about the war in Afghanistan and the crackdown on terrorism out of fear of seeming unpatriotic during wartime.
Download or read book Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered written by Stewart L. Winger and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning—as they were in Indiana. Far from being a relic of the Civil War, the landmark 1866 decision has surprising relevance in our day, as this volume makes clear. Cited in four Supreme Court decisions arising from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ex parte Milligan speaks to constitutional questions raised by the war on terror; but more than that, the authors of Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered contend, the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War era to our own. After the Civil War, critics of Reconstruction pointed to Milligan as an example of the Republican Party’s abuse of federal power; even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War. However, the authors of this volume argue that this distorts the nineteenth-century understanding of the Bill of Rights, neglects international law entirely, and, equally striking, ignores the experience of African Americans. In reviving Milligan, the Supreme Court has implicitly cast Reconstruction as a “war on terror” in which terrorist insurgencies threatened and eventually halted the assertion of black freedom by the Republican Party, the Union Army, and African Americans themselves. Returning African Americans to the center of the story, and recognizing that Lincoln and Republicans were often forced to restrict white civil liberties in order to establish black civil rights and liberties, Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered suggests an entirely different account of wartime civil liberties, one with profound implications for US racial history and constitutional law in today’s war on terror.
Download or read book Patriotic Addresses in America and England From 1850 to 1885 written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Patriotic Addresses in America and England, From 1850 to 1885: On Slavery, the Civil War, and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States The Addresses gathered in this volume come from various sources. Some are reprinted from the files of The Independent, in Whose columns they originally appeared. The ser mons delivered just before the war and during its first two years are taken from a volume of Mr. Beecher's discourses, entitled Freedom and War, issued under the careful editorship of Mr. Frederic Beecher Perkins in 1863. The speeches in England are from the te ports published by the Union and Emancipation Society, Manchester, England, in 1864. Of that edition - the only authorized one ever before published - the editor of the present work, at Mr. Beecher's request and with his cooperation, in 1872 began a revision, for the mak ing of some such volume as is here gathered; but other matters intervened and the project lay in abeyance, until the sad event of Mr. Beecher's death suggested a more complete collection of his political contributions than that earlier day could have furnished. The dis courses since the war are reprinted from the reports in Plymouth Pulpit, and some of the addresses have been gathered from contemporary newspaper reports. The one before the Society of the Army of the Potomac is from the published minutes of that body. In all cases effort has been made to secure the best reports of his spoken addresses. Those delivered in America were nearly all taken down by Mr. T. J. Ellin wood, who from about the year 1858 was Mr. Beecher's authorized stenographer, not only in all church meetings but on public occasions when there was especial desire for a full record; and to his fidelity and trained accu racy we owe very much of the great legacy to be found in Mr. Beecher's words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Dilemma of Civil Liberties written by Karin Leann Petlack and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War (1861-1865), President Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and leading Union military generals went to great lengths to limit dissidence within Union lines. Denying the writ of habeas corpus and instituting strong military rule, including martial law, the Army developed a policy of controlling unrest by the spring of 1862. This dissertation argues that these limitations limited only white freedom while expanding the civil liberties of African Americans for a short and unique moment in America's history. This dissertation examines three cities that came under strong Union military rule and martial law for extended periods of time during the Civil War - Baltimore, Maryland; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Cincinnati, Ohio. In these cities, black communities exercised greater freedom in publishing newspapers, expanded their social and religious institutions, and increased educational opportunities. Juxtaposed to this growth of the black community was the drastic decline in interracial assaults, allowing African Americans to walk their city's streets without fear of assault. Though unique in their loyalties to the Union and Confederacy, their geographical area, and the makeup of their black communities, these three cities share a common story of expanded black liberties under Union military control. This dissertation adds to existing studies on Civil War history and African American history. More specifically, this research combines the emerging genres of community studies, civil liberties in wartime, and the African American community's experience during the Civil War. American historians understand that in United States history, the rights and liberties of white men have expanded at the cost of freedom for non-whites and women. Few moments exist, however, to test a corollary to this idea - if white male liberty contracts, does it expand for others. This dissertation argues that the military occupation of these three cities and the ensuing restriction of white civil liberties during the Civil War did allow for the expansion of black civil liberties. Finally, the period of Reconstruction (1865-1877) was a failed attempt to reunite the country with a semblance of racial equality. That black freedom would disappear without the presence of federal troops was clear long before 1877, however. The experience of African Americans in these three cities proves that by the end of the war in 1865, black and white Americans knew the presence of federal troops was imperative to guarantee black equality.
