The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War

Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. The most famous case was that of Clement L. Vallandigham, the passionate critic of Lincoln's Civil War policies and one of the most controversial figure in the nation's history. In the great crisis of his time, he insisted that no circumstance, even war, could deprive a citizen of his right to oppose government policy freel

Author: Frank L. Klement
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780813153551

About the Author

Frank L. Klement, professor of history at Marquette University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of The Copperheads in the Middle West, Wisconsin and the Civil War, and numerous articles dealing mainly with the Civil War in a variety of historical journals.

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