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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mackey, Thomas C. (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Opposing Lincoln [Texte imprimé] : Clement L. Vallandigham, presidential power, and the legal battle over dissent in wartime / Thomas C. Mackey
Publication : Lawrence (Kan.) : University Press of Kansas, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-188 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Landmark law cases & American society
Lien à la collection : Landmark law cases & American society
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 173-182. Index
"Denying Lincoln tackles the issue of the limits of dissent in wartime, using as a
case study the arrest and trial by military commission of the leader of the Copperhead
opposition to the Lincoln administration, Clement Vallandigham, who was convicted
and sentenced to prison for a speech delivered on May 1, 1863. President Lincoln altered
the sentence of the commanding general, Ambrose Burnside, and banished Vallandigham
into the Confederacy, while also issuing one of the strongest defenses of presidential
power in war time: the June 12, 1863, Corning Letter. While Vallandigham made his
way through the South and into Canada, his attorneys asked for habeas corpus from
the local federal district court. The US Supreme Court justices handed down their
1864 decision of Ex parte Vallandigham denying his request for habeas corpus, thereby
deferring to Lincoln-at least in wartime. Two years later, in peacetime, the Court
changed its tune in Ex parte Milligan. The Vallandigham case raises fundamental questions
about the breadth of presidential power, the role and power of the lower and appellate
federal courts, and the evergreen question of the limits of political dissent"
Sujet(s) : Vallandigham, Clement L. (1820-1871)
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) -- Adversaires
Copperheads -- États-Unis (1861-1865)
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Mouvements contestataires
Indice(s) Dewey :
345.730 231 (23e éd.) = Infractions politiques (droit pénal) - Etats-Unis ; 973.7 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780700630141 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47020292w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47020292
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Crisis of the Union and the rise of internal dissent ; Copperheads and Vallandigham
in the Old Northwest ; Lincoln and presidential war powers ; "A despotism as unmitigated
as the world has every known" : Burnside, Vallandigham, Leavitt, and Lincoln ; "Buts"
and "ifs" and "ands" : Lincoln, Corning, Wayne, and Davis ; Conclusion: "The progress
of our arms" : the evergreen question.
