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Ex Parte Milligan

Court: US Supreme Court

..... smith a missionary to the negroes on the alleged ground of aiding and abetting a formidable rebellion in that colony those eminent statesmen lord brougham and sir james mackintosh participated in ..... authority by force of arms the old government resisted this and as the rebellion was formidable called out the militia to subdue it and passed an act declaring martial law borden .....