Title 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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Description	1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction. Power of the writ -- Common law, royal courts -- Parliament and the king -- Americanization of habeas -- Constitutional counterrevolution -- Fugitive slaves and liberty laws -- Suspension and civil war -- Writ reconstructed -- Lynch mob justice -- Writ in world war -- Federal activism and retreat -- Mass roundups and ad hoc secret detentions -- Enemy aliens and Bush's prerogative -- Dance of the court and the executive -- Obama's legal black hole -- Great writ's paradox of power and liberty -- A remedy in search of a principle -- Modern detention state and the future of the writ.
Summary	This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America.
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Subject	Habeas corpus -- United States -- History.
	Habeas corpus.
	United States.
	History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Gregory, Anthony, 1981- Power of habeas corpus in America. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107036437 (DLC) 2013001651 (OCoLC)819520088
ISBN	9781107056183 (electronic book)
	1107056187 (electronic book)
	9781139567640 (electronic book)
	1139567640 (electronic book)
	9781107059740
	1107059747
	9781107036437
	1107036437