A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States: Together With the Practice and Procedure of Courts-Martial and Other Military Tribunals (Classic Reprint)

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The Tudor period has generally been regarded by historians as in the nature Of a truce between the sovereign and Parliament. It was an era of religious rather than civil agitation; foreign wars, involving important military operations on land, were infrequent, and the policy of the Govern ment, especially during the long reign of Elizabeth, was one of internal and economic development, and of neutrality or non-interference in foreign affairs. The result was to defer the discussion of purely constitutional ques tions, and to delay the final distribution of sovereign powers between the legislative and executive departments of the government for more than a century.

During this epoch, however, Englishmen were not permitted to forget the existence of martial law; although the occasions for its exercise were less frequent than they had been during the disturbed reigns of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and were, perhaps, more nearly justified by the facts of existing emergencies than was the case during the first half of the period of Stuart rule.

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