Abstract
This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions concerning suspensions of basic liberties during armed conflicts from the American Civil War to the War on Terrorism. The legal questions raised in these cases concern fundamental constitutional issues such as the status of fundamental rights, the role of the court in times of war, and the question of how to interpret constitutional limitations on executive power. At stake in these difficult legal questions is the issue of how to conceive of the very status of law in liberal democratic states.
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300 U.S. 379 (1937).
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Justice Owen Roberts, who had voted against the New Deal legislation in previous cases, provided the fifth vote in the Court’s opinion. His move came to be known as “the switch in time that saved nine”.
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323 U.S. 214 (1944).
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I discuss this case in Chap. 3, Sect. 3.4 (Korematsu v. United States).
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For an example, see the discussion of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) in Chap. 4, Sect. 4.3 (The Procedural Model and Youngstown).
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343 U.S. 579 (1952).
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I discuss Youngstown in Chap. 3, Sect. 4.3 (The Procedural Model and Youngstown).
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I discuss Locke’s theory of prerogative in Chap. 2.
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I discuss Constant’s theory of emergency governance in Chap. 1.
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71 U.S. 2 (1866).
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The Amy Warwick (commonly known as the Prize Cases) 67 U.S. 635 (1862).
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317 U.S. 1 (1942).
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320 U.S. 81 (1943).
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323 U.S. 214 (1944).
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323 U.S. 283 (1944).
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343 U.S. 579 (1952).
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Some might argue that the choice to include The Prize Cases among the court’s paradigmatic cases on emergency is indeed controversial. However, because the government has relied heavily on this set of cases to underpin their legal arguments in cases related to suspension of basic rights during the terrorism conflict, I could not avoid dealing with this case here.
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542 U.S. 466 (2004).
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542 U.S. 507 (2004).
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548 U.S. 557 (2006).
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553 U.S. 723 (2008).
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Since the Court decided to remand the case Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), I do not discuss this case.
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List of Cited Cases
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008)
Endo, Ex parte 323 U.S. 283 (1944)
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
Hirabayashi v. U.S., 320 U.S. 81 (1943)
Milligan, Ex parte, 71 U.S. 2 (1866)
Korematsu v. U.S., 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
Prize Cases, the Amy Warwick, 67 U.S. 635 (1862)
Quirin, Ex parte, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004)
Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004)
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
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Hartz, E. (2013). Introduction. In: From the American Civil War to the War on Terror. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32633-2_1
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