Note 14 — Chapter VII
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After the writ of habeas corpus had been thus suspended, martial law, as a consequence, rapidly became all-powerful, and it continued in force during the war. That law is by Judge Black, in his argument before the Supreme Court in the case of ex parte Milligan,[14] shown to be simply the rule of irresponsible force. Law becomes helpless before it. Inter arma silent leges.