Ex parte Milligan
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Syllabus
No syllabus is shown. Volume 71 is one of the early reports (before volume 91), whose headnotes are the reporter's own.
Provisions
The Constitution Annotated's essays on these provisions cite this case.
- Article I, Section 8, Clause 11suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtI.S8.C11.1, ArtI.S8.C11.3, pp. 451, 455.
- Article I, Section 8, Clause 14suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtI.S8.C14.2, pp. 464, 465.
- Article II, Section 2, Clause 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtII.S2.C1.1.14, ArtII.S2.C1.1.2, ArtII.S2.C1.1.3, pp. 663, 664, 665, 680, 681.
Why it is here
The library's first set of cases is chosen by fixed rules from the Constitution Annotated (2022), which cites this case as “Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866)”:
- most cited in essay topic ArtII.S2.C1.1 (5 pages)
- cited on 11 pages