Of life, liberty and the pursuit of 'All persons found lurking within our lines': (Record no. 41727)

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Personal name WILLING Richard
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Title Of life, liberty and the pursuit of 'All persons found lurking within our lines':
Remainder of title the continental congress' committee on spies and the path to American independence/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Richard Willing
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022
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Summary, etc. In the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the new republic. In June 1776, a committee was appointed to explore linking the 13 provincial legislatures in a Confederation. Another was tasked to consider how the United Colonies, soon to become the United States of America, could protect itself against Great Britain by striking treaties with European powers. But before these committees were formed, the Congress first appointed a "Committee on Spies" to deal with a chronic problem: how the law should treat "persons giving intelligence to the enemy, or supplying them with provisions." The resolutions that were the Committee's answer re-defined the law of treason, substituting a new notion of American sovereignty in place of the allegiance that had been owed the British monarchy. They drew a bright line between those lukewarm or hostile to the Revolution, and the new American identity embraced by its supporters. And they placed limits on the military's ability to try civilians charged with spying by court-martial, setting a precedent for American military justice. This paper argues that the impact of the Committee's work has been under-examined, as has been its influence on George Washington and the evolving American policy of military deference to civil authority in matters of justice. It explores how the Committee's "Resolves" prompted the creation of new treason statutes in nearly all the United "States," which in turn prompted hundreds of prosecutions. The paper revises scholars' views on how and why the Spies Committee was formed. It traces the Committee's contribution to language incorporated by the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution's article on treason, drafted 13 years later by a scholar who had been a Spies Committee member.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element HOW THE COMMITTEE ON SPIES TOOK SHAPE
General subdivision THE FAR SHORE - NEW TREASON STATUTES IN ACTION, 1776-1778
-- FLAGRANT INJUSTICE
-- THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS' COMMITTEE
-- THE COURT MARTIAL POLICIES
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Main entry heading Intelligence and National Security :
Related parts Vol. 37, No 5, August 2022, pp. 651-666 (99)
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2021.2019915">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2021.2019915</a>
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          Mindef Library & Info Centre Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals 22/09/2022   INTELLIGENCE 67722.1001 03/01/2024 1 03/01/2024 Journal Article