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Individual Conscience Under Military Compulsion, Raymond B. Marcin
Individual Conscience Under Military Compulsion, Raymond B. Marcin
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The exercise of individual conscience under military compulsion is an issue revived by the My Lai courts martial. Natural law jurists saw a place for individual conscience, but the positivist school's dominance changed that. The Nuremberg doctrine denied the defense of superior orders, and now the debate is raging again.