The power of habeas corpus in America : from the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror / Anthony Gregory, the Independent Institute, Oakland.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The power of the writ -- Common law, royal courts -- Parliament and the king -- The Americanization of habeas -- Constitutional counterrevolution -- Fugitive slaves and liberty laws -- Suspension and civil war -- The writ reconstructed -- Lynch mob justice -- The writ in world war -- Federal activism and retreat -- Mass roundups and ad hoc secret detentions -- Enemy aliens and Bush's prerogative -- The dance of the court and the executive -- Obama's legal black hole -- The great writ's paradox of power and liberty -- A remedy in search of a principle -- The modern detention state and the future of the writ.
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This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America.
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