A Treatise on Martial Law, and Courts-Martial - As Practised in the United States of America, Published by Order of the United States Military Philosophical Society #222109

Martial law, as it exists in this country, forms part of the Laws of the Land; and it is enacted by the same authority which is the origin of all other statutary regulations, and couse quently has the same positive obligation on those Whom it is intended to bind, as the Common and Statute Law has on all the citizens of the United States.