War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests, Reconstruction, and Military Government; Also, Now First Published, War Claims of Aliens; With Notes on the Acts of the Execut

Excerpt from War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests, Reconstruction, and Military Government; Also, Now First Published, War Claims of Aliens; With Notes on the Acts of the Executive and Legislative Departments During Our Civil War, and a Collection of Cases Decided in the National CourtsIt will also be observed, that a distinction is pointed out in these pages between the legislative powers of Congress, in time of peace and in time of war. Whenever the words the common defence are used, they are intended to refer to a time, not of con structive war, but of actual Open hostility, which requires the nation to exert its naval and military powers in self-defence, to save the government and the country from destruction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.