Power of Habeas Corpus in America From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror

Name: Power of Habeas Corpus in America From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror
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ISBN: 9781107036437

ISBN-10: 1107036437

ISBN-13: 9781107036437

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anthony Gregory

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Despite its mystique as the greatest Anglo-American legal protection, habeas corpus's history features opportunistic power plays, political hypocrisy, ad hoc jurisprudence, and many failures in effectively securing individual liberty. The Power of Habeas Corpus in America tells the story of the writ from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power. The book weighs in on habeas's historical controversies - addressing its origins, the relationship between king and parliament, the U.S. Constitution's Suspension Clause, the writ's role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of…

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List price: $164.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 434
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.452

Anthony Gregory is a Research Fellow for The Independent Institute. His articles have appeared in the Independent Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and have been translated into multiple languages, reprinted in textbooks, and used in college courses on law and political science.




A History of Power Struggles



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



Executive Detention in Post-9/11 America



Mass Roundups and Ad Hoc Secret Detentions



Enemy Aliens and Bushï¿½s Prerogative



The Dance of the Court and the Executive



Obama's Legal Black Hole



Custody and Liberty



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