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Ladataan... The Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870: Gold,Guns and GallowsTekijä: Mark C. Dillon
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is kind of an odd book, as on one hand it feels like a rehash of old memoirs and the 19th-century equivalent of "true crime" stories. On the other, I'm not sure that the legal and judicial analysis fits that well, as Dillon considers how vigilante justice stacked up against both past and current standards of due process. Still, Montana does seem to obsesses about its vigilante movement and it's hard not to feel some sympathy with the initial outbreak of "public" justice in the gold fields of the state, as there does seem to have been an actual criminal enterprise to rob the miners being directed by Henry Plummer, the elected sheriff, and a man with a long history of personal violence. The federal government also did the original citizens of the territory no favors, never mind that there was the small matter of the ongoing civil war, by not providing the territory with a prototype legal code and a presiding judge from the start; the territory really was existing in a state of lawlessness. As for later eruptions of vigilante justice there is less cause for sympathy, as they were either expressions of political conflict (directed towards the territorial governorship of Thomas Meagher) or of a range war provoked by self-important major ranchers. ( ) ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860's, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.Using newspaper articles, diaries, letters, biographies, invoices, and books that speak to the compelling history of Montana's vigilantism in the 1860's, Dillon Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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