The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America

From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror

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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America

From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107070363
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Jurisprudence
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I A History of Power Struggles
  6. Part II Executive Detention in Post-9/11 America
  7. Part III Custody and Liberty
  8. Appendix A Analysis of Hirabayashi v. United States
  9. Appendix B Analysis of Korematsu v. United States
  10. Appendix C Analysis of Ex parte Endo
  11. Appendix D Analysis of Rumsfeld v. Padilla
  12. Appendix E Analysis of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
  13. Appendix F Analysis of Rasul v. Bush
  14. Appendix G Analysis of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
  15. Appendix H Analysis of Boumediene v. Bush
  16. Selected Cases
  17. Historical Term Chart
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index