Political Trials: Gordian Knots in the LawRonald Christenson Transaction Publishers, 1 janv. 1986 - 303 pages Political Trials takes issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, and raises questions about our public identity, our standards for public policy, and our sense of history. Christenson explores how political trials engage society's conflicting values and loyalties. He examines numerous cases throughout history, bringing into question basic foundations of law, politics, and society. Since the first edition appeared, a number of notable political trials have raised critical issues. Christenson discusses these and shows how they have made a positive contribution to an open and democratic society. |
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The SWAPO Trial A Partisan Trial | 34 |
Trials of Corruption and Insanity The Question of Responsibility | 72 |
Trials of Dissenters The Question of Conscience | 105 |
The Wisconsin Bomber Trial of a Frustrated Dissenter | 147 |
Trials of Nationalists The Question of Representation | 164 |
The Wounded Knee Trial A Trial of Nationalists | 197 |
Trials of Regimes The Question of Legitimacy | 228 |
Conclusion Do Hard Cases Make Bad Law? | 253 |
Jury Selection in the Wounded Knee Trial | 261 |
Possible Political Trials | 268 |
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accused Afrikaner American arrested asked assassination attorney authority Berrigan bombing Catholic Catonsville Nine charged Charles Chief Elifas church conscience conspiracy Cooper court courtroom crimes criminal defense Dennis Banks Donatists Dreyfus England evidence Gordian Knots guilty Gunpowder Plot Hinckley Hurd Ibid Indians indictment Inquisition insanity insanity plea issue Jansen Jesus John Hinckley John Lilburne Judge Nichol Judge Strydom jurors jury jury nullification Justice Karl Armstrong killed king Kunstler Landrover lawyers leaders Liddy Lilburne's Lord Louis McNaughtan ment Moves Camp murder Mushimba Namibia nation Nixon Nkandi Panthers Parliament partisan trials persecution person police political trials President Press prison prosecution prosecutor question refused religion Revolution Roman rule of law Russell Means sentence Shikongo society Socrates South Africa story Strafford SWAPO Terrorism Act terrorist testimony Thomas tion told treason trial of Socrates trials of dissenters tried Vietnam Watergate William Windhoek witnesses Wounded Knee York Zenger