Research Starters:

**NOTE: These web links are just a starting point. You will need to find additional information to be add greater depth to your testimony.

Defense Team:

What are the President’s Powers?

• Constitutional Powers of the President (Juror Information).pdf

• Presidential Powers in War

Military Tribunals:

• What are Military Tribunals?

William Seward -- Writ of Habeas Corpus:

• What is Habeas Corpus?

• Seward’s perspective on Habeas Corpus

Emancipation Proclamation:

• Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

• Legal Justification

• Emancipation and the Constitution

• A Pragmatic Proclamation

Frederick Douglass and Emancipation:

• Douglas and Freedom

• Douglas and Lincoln

John Merryman and Lamdin Milligan:

• John Merryman Background

• Habeas Corpus -- the Merryman and Milligan cases

• Milligan and Dissent in the Civil War

• Ex-Parte Milligan

Vallandigham Case:

• Clement Vallandigham

• Vallandigham Copperhead Resistance

Copperhead and Draft Resistance:

• Who is Fernando Wood?

• Peace Democrats, Copperheads, and Draft Rioters

Executive Powers of the President:

• Executive Powers Video 1

• Presidential Powers Video

• President Lincoln and War Powers

The Soldier’s and Civilian’s Perspective:

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Sherman's Letter to Mayor of Atlanta

Lincoln’s Perspective and the Constitutional Dilemma:

• Lincoln's Constitutional Dilemma

• Government During the War

• Abraham Lincoln Impeachment?

• Lincoln Letter

• Papers and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

• First Amendment?