Donald Boxley 14 hrs Some Dare Call It The New Inquisition - As Royal Court of jurisdiction, imposed civil penalties marked Codes. As we see, the Tribunal of the Inquisition applied temporal punishment. The courts were composed of two professional judges and theologian, had the deal of Honor and had to wear clerical garb. There was a prosecutor and a judge of goods Tasaba possessions confiscated from the accused. He assisted a number of support staff who performed various functions; among them, the most important to the story were notaries, who wrote all the questions and answers made called heretics and today are very valuable documents, including scoring the statements made when the defendant was subjected to torture, as discussed in this example of a confession made under torture. The arrest, military trial, conviction, and sentence of Vallandigham aroused excitement throughout the country. Orator after orator expressed outrage against the allegedly arbitrary action of the Administration in suppressing the liberty of speech and of the press, the right of trial by jury, the law of evidence and the right of habeas corpus, and, in general, its assertion of the supremacy of military over civil law. Vallandigham charged Lincoln with the wicked and hazardous experiment of calling the people to arms without counsel and authority of Congress, with suspending the writ of habeas corpus, and with coolly coming before the Congress and pleading that he was only preserving and protecting the Constitution and demanding and expecting the thanks of Congress and the country for his usurpations of power. Vallandigham was speaking in Ohio when he was arrested by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. He was escorted to Kemper Barracks, the military prison in Cincinnati, and tried by a military commission. He was quickly found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for the duration of the war. Crooks like Chief Justice Williams were appointed to review Military Tribunals caught.net/caught/williams.htm Williams Tribunal Speech - heritage.org/research/lecture/abraham-lincoln-and-civil-liberties-in-wartime
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