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In a Time of Total War: The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954

In a Time of Total War: The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954

Author: Joshua E. Kastenberg; Eric Merriam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781472450845
Published In: March 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Civil liberties, mass conscription, expanded military jurisdiction, property rights, labor relations, and war crimes arising from the conflict were all issues to come before the federal judiciary during this period and well beyond since the Supreme Court and the lower courts heard appeals from the government’s wartime decisions well into the 1970s. A detailed study of the judiciary during World War II evidences that while the majority of the justices and judges determined appeals partly on the basis of enabling a large, disciplined, and reliable military to either deter or fight a third world war, there was a recognition of the existence of a tension between civil rights and liberties on the one side and military necessity on the other. While the majority of the judiciary tilted toward national security and deference to the military establishment, the judiciary’s recognition of this tension created a foundation for persons to challenge governmental narrowing of civil and individual rights after 1954.

Kastenberg and Merriam present a clearer picture as to why the Court and the lower courts determined the issues before them in terms of external influences from both national and world-wide events. This book is also a study of civil-military relations in wartime so whilst legal scholars will find this study captivating, so will military and political historians, as well as political scientists and national security policy makers.

Preface

Introduction: the federal judiciary in total war, 1939-1945

The 'Stone Court', military governance, and World War II

The court, total war, and the citizen, 1941-1945

1946.

the last year of the Stone Court: the aftermath of a total war and the eve of the Cold War

The Vinson Court: communism, national security, and deference to the military establishment, 1946-1952

The last term of the Vinson Court: the height of deference to the military establishment, 1953

Conclusion

Bibliography

Table of cases

Index.