A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber’s manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a significant historical discovery. As a key legal advisor to the Lincoln White House, Columbia College professor Francis Lieber was one of the architects and defenders of Lincoln’s most famous uses of emergency powers during the Civil War. Lieber’s work laid the foundation for rules now accepted worldwide. In the years after the war, Lieber and his son turned their attention to the question of emergency powers. The Liebers’ treatise addresses a vital question, as prominent since 9/11 as it was in Lieber’s lifetime: how much power should the government have in a crisis? The Liebers present a theory that aims to preserve legal restraint, while giving the executive necessary freedom of action. Smiley and Witt have written a lucid introduction that explains how this manuscript is a key discovery in two ways: both as a historical document and as an important contribution to the current debate over emergency powers in constitutional democracies.

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LIEBER, FRANCIS

Lieber, G. Norman

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On Civil Liberty And Self-government

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Da Capo Press

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The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber

The Life And Letters Of Francis Lieber

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)

On Civil Liberty And Self-government

On Civil Liberty and Self Government

The Life And Letters Of Francis Lieber

Legal and political hermeneutics, or, Principles of interpretation and construction in law and politics: with remarks on precedents and authorities

The Stranger in America: or, Letters to a Gentleman in Germany

The Stranger in America: or, Letters to a Gentleman in Germany

The Stranger in America: or, Letters to a Gentleman in Germany

The Stranger In America Or Letters To A Gentleman In Germany: Comprising Sketches Of The Manners, Society, And National Peculiarities Of The United States (1835)

The Stranger In America Or Letters To A Gentleman In Germany: Comprising Sketches Of The Manners, Society, And National Peculiarities Of The United States (1835)