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...martial law is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. President Washington chose to limit the use of military power when, after dispatching troops to quell the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, he ordered all insurgents to be turned over to civil rather than military courts for trial. But during the Civil War, as he struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief...
...rebellion is clearly not confined to California, says Yankelovich. People elsewhere feel at least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck...
What then is the tax rebellion? Yankelovich finds three meanings. First, it reflects a personal crunch. Last year more people felt their income would grow in the following year or two than believed it would decline. This year the proportions are the reverse. So part of the revolt is a perception by the typical citizen that "my taxes and living costs are rising faster than my income...
...third, and most important, aspect of the revolt is that it is aimed at what people see as forms of unfairness in American life. This is where the rebellion's real power lies. Says Yankelovich: "When people begin to resent what they regard as unfair, it generates the kind of emotion that gets some people elected and others thrown out of office...
MANAGUA, Nic.--President Anastasio Somoza used troops, tanks, and warplanes to quell the latest and bloodiest uprising against his rule, but the rebellion against him appears far from over...