Author: Tatlow Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Martial law
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Alexander Macomb
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ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Samuel Smith Nicholas
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Category : Martial law
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: William Edward Birkhimer
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Author: Guido Norman Lieber
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Category : Martial law
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: William Francis Finlason
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Henry Wager Halleck
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Category : Martial law
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824852893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Selected as a 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Bayonets in Paradise recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the total population of Hawaii during World War II. Declared immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, martial law was all-inclusive, bringing under army rule every aspect of the Territory of Hawaii's laws and governmental institutions. Even the judiciary was placed under direct subservience to the military authorities. The result was a protracted crisis in civil liberties, as the army subjected more than 400,000 civilians—citizens and alien residents alike—to sweeping, intrusive social and economic regulations and to enforcement of army orders in provost courts with no semblance of due process. In addition, the army enforced special regulations against Hawaii's large population of Japanese ancestry; thousands of Japanese Americans were investigated, hundreds were arrested, and some 2,000 were incarcerated. In marked contrast to the well-known policy of the mass removals on the West Coast, however, Hawaii's policy was one of "selective," albeit preventive, detention. Army rule in Hawaii lasted until late 1944—making it the longest period in which an American civilian population has ever been governed under martial law. The army brass invoked the imperatives of security and "military necessity" to perpetuate its regime of censorship, curfews, forced work assignments, and arbitrary "justice" in the military courts. Broadly accepted at first, these policies led in time to dramatic clashes over the wisdom and constitutionality of martial law, involving the president, his top Cabinet officials, and the military. The authors also provide a rich analysis of the legal challenges to martial law that culminated in Duncan v. Kahanamoku, a remarkable case in which the U.S. Supreme Court finally heard argument on the martial law regime—and ruled in 1946 that provost court justice and the military's usurpation of the civilian government had been illegal. Based largely on archival sources, this comprehensive, authoritative study places the long-neglected and largely unknown history of martial law in Hawaii in the larger context of America's ongoing struggle between the defense of constitutional liberties and the exercise of emergency powers.

Author: William Edward Birkhimer
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341887997
Category : Martial law
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Chad Daybell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932898996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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"After natural disasters and economic difficulties have left the United States on the edge of collapse, the nation's major cities are becoming lawless battlgrounds. Nathan Foster and Marie Shaw find themselves trapped in Chicago, where they must outwit their enemies if they hope to reunite with their families. When the U.S. President makes the crucial decision to allow peacekeepers from the United Nations to help restore order, the nation hopes it will put them back on their feet. However, when a major earthquake strikes, the true intentions of the U.N. forces become more evident"--