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Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered -

Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered

Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror
Buch | Hardcover
392 Seiten
2020
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-2936-7 (ISBN)
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At the end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin Milligan and his coconspirators of fomenting an insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators. This book argues the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War to the present.
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.

Stewart L. Winger is associate professor of history at Illinois State University. Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Kansas
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 236 mm
Gewicht 764 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7006-2936-X / 070062936X
ISBN-13 978-0-7006-2936-7 / 9780700629367
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