... by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist... The North American Review - Page 5541896Full view - About this book
| 1968 - 342 pages
...usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, ar. in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of aetusi war." However, even with the limitation on the us of martial rule as set forth in MiUigcM, the... | |
| Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 528 pages
...Court reasoned that "{m]artial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war."1" The Court in Millsgan delineated the conditions under which martial law may properly be imposed:... | |
| Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 390 pages
...usurpation of power. . . . Because, during the late Rebellion [martial rule] could have been enforeed in Virginia, where the national authority was overturned and the courts driven out, it does " Id. at 122-23 (quoting US CONST, amend. VI). " Id. at 123 (quoting US CONST, amend. V). " See Dynes... | |
| Chester G. Hearn - 2000 - 274 pages
..."martial law can never exist when the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercises of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war." The opinion became one of the bulwarks of American liberty and fully vindicated the president's opposition... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2002 - 638 pages
...gross distortion of power. Martial rule can never exist where courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is...to the locality of actual war. Because, during the [Civil War] it could have been enforced in Virginia, where the national authority was overturned and... | |
| James Sean Healey - 2007 - 192 pages
...usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war. (4 Wallace 2) Under this ruling, martial law must be confined to the locality of the real war and only... | |
| Harold J Krent - 2005 - 288 pages
...usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war."78 The necessity must be actual and present; and the crisis must effectively close the courts.... | |
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