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NEW Phrase to learn.

"Ex parte Milligan"- SCOTUS ruling about Scope of military jurisdiction under the US Constitution.

There are under the Constitution 3 kinds of military jurisdiction: 1 2b exercised both n peace & war; another 2b exercised in time of foreign war w/out
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the boundaries of the United States, or in time of rebellion and civil war within states or districts occupied by rebels treated [71 U.S. 2, 142] as belligerents; and a third to be exercised in time of invasion or insurrection within the limits of the US,
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or during rebellion w/in the limits of states maintaining adhesion 2 the National Government, when the public danger requires its exercise. The first of these may be called jurisdiction under MILITARY LAW, and is found in acts of Congress prescribing rules and articles of war,
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or otherwise providing for the government of the national forces; the second may be distinguished as MILITARY GOVERNMENT, superseding, as far as may be deemed expedient, the local law, & exercised by the military commander under the direction of the President, with the express
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or implied sanction of Congress; while the third may be denominated MARTIAL LAW PROPER, and is called into action by Congress, or temporarily, when the action of Congress cannot be invited, and in the case of justifying or excusing peril, by the President,
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in times of insurrection or invasion, or of civil or foreign war, within districts or localities where ordinary law no longer adequately secures public safety and private rights.
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To sum it up-read carefully.
There are so many new phrases, laws, words to learn

with all that has happened & is finally seeing the

light of day!

What a busy busy year this has been.

I feel like I have earned some sort of degree, more so than

that of "Dr" Jill.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Milligan
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