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The Constitution in Wartime

Posted by michael on from the patch-constitution.txt-restrictions.txt dept.

Findlaw has an excellent essay discussing the history of law in wartime. The author makes the point very elegantly that inter arma silent leges (usually translated "in time of war the law is silent", but I prefer "in the face of arms, the law is silent"). Richard Stallman has an essay on a similar theme, not quite as good, but still worth reading.

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  1. this is true by crayz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    michael is a fuckup