To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law

by G. Norman Lieber and Francis Lieber

Francis Lieber's lost Civil War-era manuscript on emergency powers--and only now rediscovered in the National Archives--addresses an important contemporary debate in constitutional law and political philosophy: how much power should an executive have during a state of emergency?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300222548
• ISBN13: 9780300222548
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.4"