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

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America.
Despite its mystique as the greatest Anglo-American legal protection, habeas corpus' history features power plays, political hypocrisy, ad hoc jurisprudence, and failures in securing individual liberty. This book 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' historical controversies - addressing its origins, the relationship between king and parliament, the US Constitution's Suspension Clause, the writ's role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of federal habeas for state prisoners and wartime detainees from the Civil War and World War II to the War on Terror. It stresses the importance of liberty and detention policy in making the writ more than a tool of power. The book presents a more nuanced and critical view of the writ's history, showing the dark side of this most revered judicial power.
Part I. A History of Power Struggles: 1. Common law, royal courts; 2. Parliament and the king; 3. Americanization; 4. Constitutional counterrevolution; 5. Fugitive slaves and liberty laws; 6. Suspension and civil war; 7. The writ reconstructed; 8. Lynch mob justice; 9. The writ in world war; 10. Federal activism and retreat; Part II. Executive Detention in Post-9/11 America: 11. Ad hoc detentions; 12. Bush's prerogative; 13. The dance of the court and the executive; 14. Obama's legal black hole; Part III. Custody and Liberty: 15. The great writ's paradox of power and liberty; 16. A remedy in search of a principle; 17. The modern detention state and the future of the writ.
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.

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