War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests Reconstruction and Military Government; Also Now First Published War Claims of Aliens; With Notes on the Acts of the Executive and Legislative Departments During Our Civil W

Excerpt from War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests Reconstruction and Military Government; Also Now First Published War Claims of Aliens; With Notes on the Acts of the Executive and Legislative Departments During Our Civil War and a Collection of Cases Decided in the National Courts<br><br>It will also be observed that a distinction is pointed out in these pages between the legislative powers of Congress in time of peace and in time of war. Whenever the words the common defence are used they are intended to refer to a time not of con structive war but of actual Open hostility which requires the nation to exert its naval and military powers in self-defence to save the government and the country from destruction.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.