Give the People Their Own War Power

Ann Arbor, MI: G. Wahr, 1927. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo bound in green cloth; 214 pp, 20 cm Very Good(+) with minor wear to exterior. Hardcover. ISBN: 2624259

Presentation copy with compliments card attached to front paste-down. | Thomas Hall Shastid, M.D., LL.B., was an American physician, legal scholar, and prolific essayist whose writings often bridged medical, ethical, and civic concerns. In Give the People Their Own War Power, he advances a reformist argument that the authority to declare war should not lie exclusively with government officials but should instead require the direct consent of the citizenry. Writing in the aftermath of World War I, Shastid framed the proposal as a safeguard against political militarism and as an extension of democratic sovereignty, reflecting both his legal training and his humanitarian sensibility.