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9780765804730

Political Trials: Gordian Knots in the Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765804730

  • ISBN10:

    0765804735

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-01-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(2)
Preface to the Second Edition xi(2)
Preface to the First Edition xiii
1. What is a Political Trial?
1(14)
2. Partisan Trials: The Question of Expediency
15(20)
3. The SWAPO Trial: A Partisan Trial
35(44)
Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr.
4. Trials of Corruption and Insanity: The Question of Responsibility
79(40)
5. Trials of Dissenters: The Question of Conscience
119(44)
6. The Wisconsin Bomber and Other Frustrated Dissenters
163(20)
7. Trials of Nationalists: The Question of Representation
183(38)
8. The Wounded Knee Trial: A Trial of Nationalists
221(34)
9. Trials of Regimes: The Question of Legitimacy
255(28)
10. Conclusion: Do Hard Cases Make Bad Law?
283(12)
Appendixes 295(26)
A. Jury Selection in the Wounded Knee Trial 295(8)
B. Possible Political Trials 303(18)
Bibliography 321(14)
Index 335

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