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003			OCoLC
005			20240726105318.0
008			121126s2011 mauaf ob 001 0 eng d
010			_z2011012149
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020			_a9780674063259 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aKF223 _b.B639 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMcGinty, Brian. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe body of John Merryman : _bAbraham Lincoln and the suspension of habeas corpus / _cBrian McGinty.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (253 pages, 10. pages of plates) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aThe challenge -- _tConflicted ground -- _tThe squire of Hayfields -- _tThe writ and the suspension -- _tAll the laws but one -- _tWeighing in -- _tThe courts -- _tA gentleman still -- _tThe great tribunal.
520	0		_a"In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area. When John Merryman, a wealthy Marylander suspected of burning bridges to prevent the passage of U.S. troops to Washington, was detained in Fort McHenry, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Roger Taney, declared the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded Merryman's immediate release. Lincoln defied Taney's order, offering his own forceful counter-argument for the constitutionality of his actions. Thus the stage was set for one of the most dramatic personal and legal confrontations the country has ever witnessed. The Body of John Merryman is the first book-length examination of this much-misunderstood chapter in American history. Brian McGinty captures the tension and uncertainty that surrounded the early months of the Civil War, explaining how Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was first and foremost a military action that only subsequently became a crucial constitutional battle. McGinty's narrative brings to life the personalities that drove this uneasy standoff and expands our understanding of the war as a legal--and not just a military, political, and social--conflict. The Body of John Merryman is an extraordinarily readable book that illuminates the contours of one of the most significant cases in American legal history--a case that continues to resonate in our own time"--Provided by publisher.
530			_a2 _ub
600	1	0	_aMerryman, John, _d1824-1881 _xTrials, litigation, etc.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bSupreme Court.
650		0	_aWar and emergency powers _zUnited States.
650		0	_aHabeas corpus _zUnited States.
650		4	_aHabeas corpus _zUnited States.
650		4	_aLaw, other.
650		4	_aLaw.
650		4	_aWar and emergency powers _zUnited States.
653			_aEx parte Merryman (1861)
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502808&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hKF. _m2011 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c96121 _d96121
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell