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The Conflict between the Chief Justice and the Chief Executive: Ex parte Merryman
Author(s) -
DOWNEY ARTHUR T.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2006.00142.x
Subject(s) - economic justice , ex parte , government (linguistics) , scope (computer science) , political science , spanish civil war , law , criminology , management , public administration , sociology , economics , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
Rarely does the clash of ideas on the scope of governmental authority get reduced to a direct conflict between leaders of the branches of government. However, early in the Civil War period, the Chief Executive and the Chief Justice confronted each other in a direct fashion. The stakes were high, because the issues related to the conflict between national security and personal liberty.