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114 Yale L.J. 149 (2004-2005)
Emergency Power and the Militia Acts

handle is hein.journals/ylr114 and id is 167 raw text is: Note Emergency Power and the Militia Acts Stephen I. Vladeck CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................... 151 I. THE FIRST MILITIA CLAUSE AND THE MILITIA ACTS........................... 156 A. The Constitution and Emergency Power ..................................... 156 B. Calling Forth the State Militias: The 1792 and 1795 Militia Acts.......................................................................... 159 C. Calling Forth the Federal Army: The 1807 and 18 6 1 A cts...................................................................................... 16 3 D. Martial Law, Habeas Corpus, and the Ku Klux Klan.................. 167 II. THE MILITIA ACTS, THE COURTS, AND EMERGENCIES ....................... 169 A. Martial Law in the Early Republic: Mott and Luther.................. 170 B. Emergency Power During the Civil War ..................................... 175 1. The Militia Acts and Martial Law: Field and the Trigger Problem ....................................................... 175 2. The Importance of the Prize Cases ........................................ 177 3. M illigan and a Suggested Trigger......................................... 180 C. The Problem of Inherent Presidential Power: Debs and Neagle .......................................................................... 183 149 Imaged with the Permission of Yale Law Journal