In the Name of Necessity - Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties

Informationen zum Autor Marouf Hasian Jr. is Professor of Communications at the University of Utah and author of Legal Memories and Amnesias in America's Rhetorical Culture and Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Rhetorical Examination of Legal Histories . Klappentext Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals! the suspension of due process! and the elimination of habeas corpus. Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations! arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals following 9/11 resemble many historical claims for restricting civil liberties! more often than not in the name of necessity. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals! the suspension of due process and the elimination of habeas corpus. The author examines the major legal cases and argues that the past is often cited selectively neglecting historial contexts and the controversies these cases have engendered.

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• Authors: Marouf Hasian, Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. Marouf Hasian
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2012
• EAN: 9780817357382
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5738-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Rhetoric Culture & Social Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law