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Opposing Lincoln - Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, and the Legal Battle over Dissent in Wartime (Paperback)
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Opposing Lincoln - Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, and the Legal Battle over Dissent in Wartime (Paperback)
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In a time of great national division, a time of threats of
resistance and counterthreats of suppression, a controversial
president takes drastic measures to rein in his critics, citing
national interest, national security, and his obligations as chief
executive. If this seems familiar in our current moment of intense
political agitation, that is all the more reason to attend to
Thomas Mackey's gripping, learned, and eminently readable account
of the Civil War-era case of Clement L. Vallandigham, an Ohio
congressman arrested for campaigning against the war and President
Lincoln's policies. In Mackey's telling, the story of this
prominent 'Copperhead,' or Southern sympathizer, illuminates the
problem of internal security, loyalty, and disloyalty faced by the
Lincoln administration during wartime - and, more generally, the
problem of determining the balance between executive power and
tyranny, and between dissent and treason. Opposing Lincoln explores
Vallandigham's opposition not only to Lincoln and his
administration but also to Lincoln's use of force and his executive
orders suspending habeas corpus. In addition to tracing
Vallandigham's experiences of being arrested, tried, convicted by
military commission instead of civilian courts, and then banished
from the United States, this historical narrative introduces
readers to Lincoln's most important statements on presidential
powers in wartime, while also providing a primer on the wealth of
detail involved in such legal and military controversies. Examining
the long-standing issue of the limits of political dissent in
wartime, the book asks the critical historical question of what
reasonable lengths a legitimate government can go to in order to
protect itself and its citizens from threats, whether external or
internal. The case of Clement Vallandigham is, Mackey suggests, a
quintessentially American story. Testing the limits of dissent in a
political democracy in wartime, and of the scope and power of
constitutional government, it clarifies a critical aspect of the
American experience from afar.
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