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To Save the Country - A Lost Treatise on Martial Law (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,373
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To Save the Country - A Lost Treatise on Martial Law (Hardcover): Francis Lieber, G. Norman Lieber

To Save the Country - A Lost Treatise on Martial Law (Hardcover)

Francis Lieber, G. Norman Lieber; Edited by Will Smiley, John Fabian Witt

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

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A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost-until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber's manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a significant historical discovery. As a key legal advisor to the Lincoln White House, Columbia College professor Francis Lieber was one of the architects and defenders of Lincoln's most famous uses of emergency powers during the Civil War. Lieber's work laid the foundation for rules now accepted worldwide. In the years after the war, Lieber and his son turned their attention to the question of emergency powers. The Liebers' treatise addresses a vital question, as prominent since 9/11 as it was in Lieber's lifetime: how much power should the government have in a crisis? The Liebers present a theory that aims to preserve legal restraint, while giving the executive necessary freedom of action. Smiley and Witt have written a lucid introduction that explains how this manuscript is a key discovery in two ways: both as a historical document and as an important contribution to the current debate over emergency powers in constitutional democracies.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
Release date: September 2019
Authors: Francis Lieber • G. Norman Lieber
Editors: Will Smiley • John Fabian Witt
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22254-8
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-300-22254-8
Barcode: 9780300222548

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