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Henry Winthrop Ballantine
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 5, No. 5. (Jan., 1915),

It is a widespread superstition among military men, and among
many other well informed persons, that there is some mysterious and
transcendant force in a declaration of martial law. The idea seems to be growing that it is the prerogative and function of the military to substitute itself for all civil authority, and that while it is in control the constitutions, courts and laws may be suspended and set aside.