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increased governmental control, it also began to consider how some of its wartime powers could be extended into peacetime. After the 1906 split between the moderates...

violence in India, with the unstated goal of extending the government's wartime powers. The Rowlatt committee presented its report in July 1918 and identified...

shift [during World War I] from normalcy to drastic and all-embracing wartime powers like those contained in the Defence of the Realm Act. Sawer, Marian...

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought...

the empire were becoming increasingly embittered as, under expanded wartime powers, the military routinely suspended civil rights and treated different...

involving the intersection of individual freedoms and the government's wartime powers. Rutledge served on the Court until his death at the age of fifty-five...

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the...

Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime. As historian Gerhard Hirschfeld says, it "is as old...

Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often...

Roosevelt later cited further wartime powers to issue Executive Order 9066, which interned Japanese Americans using powers unrelated to the Alien Enemies...

that neutral powers such as Sweden maintained their neutrality and independence by offering economic concessions to the wartime powers to make up for...

commissioned by the outbreak of war, with the Board of Trade exercising its wartime powers to place restrictions on the industry, rationing in particular the use...

restraint on the president's wartime powers arguably puts the president at the height, rather than the ebb, of his powers in any time of war, even an undeclared...

symbolic office devoid of any major authority, stripped of veto and wartime powers. Deriving authority from the powerful Sejm, the prime minister and the...

from the Opposition over his handling of the affair and his use of wartime powers. John Diefenbaker led the charge, arguing that King's orders-in-Council...

supreme position of "General at Sea and Land", effectively assuming the wartime powers of the Lord High Admiral. After the end of his seagoing naval career...

a plan to ship British wealth to the safety of Canada. Using their wartime powers, the Churchill government confiscated the securities that the British...

including the Indian Penal Code. In 1919, the Rowlatt Act extended wartime powers under the Defence of India Act 1915, including arbitrary arrests and...

the power to control prices, although the government later used its wartime powers to regulate the prices of some basic goods. Lower wages and perceptions...

instead appointed a four-man committee vested with what amounted to "wartime powers" to use any means settle the Patriots' finances, up to and including...