Product Description: Since the United States' entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation's military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community studying the relationship between the Court and the military establishment argues otherwise providing the basis for a further argument that the legal construct of the military establishment is constitutionally questionable...read more

Product Description: Stephen Neff offers the first comprehensive study of the wide range of legal issues arising from the American Civil War, many of which resonate in debates to this day.Neff examines the lawfulness of secession, executive and legislative governmental powers, and laws governing the conduct of war...read more

Product Description: The "rules of warfare" and "government of the army" as they existed in the American Civil War. All 101 Articles of War as amended through June 1863 including the famous Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), directed by President Lincoln, which expanded the laws of land warfare and General Orders No...read more

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Product Description: How can a democratic nation which distrusts centralised power create and maintain the institutions to defend itself without undermining the very liberty it is trying to perpetuate? In attempting to answer this central question, this volume begins with an analysis of the constitutional framework for American national security and describes several major aspects of American military service: the character and role of the citizen-soldier; the historical experience of the regular army intervening to maintain internal order; and the experience of black Americans in their efforts to serve equally in the nation's armed forces...read more

Product Description: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States -- History.