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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Tyler, Amanda L.
Titre(s) : Habeas corpus [Texte imprimé] : a very short introduction / Amanda L. Tyler
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxii, 156 pages) : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection : Very short introductions ; 680
Lien à la collection : Very short introductions
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 143-145 and index
"The storied writ of habeas corpus-literally, to hold the body-has enjoyed celebrated
status in the common law tradition for centuries. Writing in the eighteenth century,
the widely influential English jurist and commentator William Blackstone once labeled
the writ of habeas corpus a "bulwark of our liberties." Soon thereafter, a member
of Parliament glorified the writ as "[t]he great palladium of the liberties of the
subject." Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, in the lead up to the American Revolution,
the Continental Congress declared that the habeas privilege and the right to trial
by jury were among the most important rights in a free society, "without which a people
cannot be free and happy." A few years later, while promoting the ratification of
the United States Constitution in The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton celebrated the
privilege as one of the "greate[st] securities to liberty and republicanism" known.
Thus, as another participant in the ratification debates wrote, the writ of habeas
corpus has long been viewed as "essential to freedom.""
Sujet(s) : Habeas corpus -- Grande-Bretagne
Habeas corpus -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
345.730 56 (23e éd.) = Droits des suspects et des inculpés - Etat-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190918989. - ISBN 0190918985. - ISBN 9780190919009 (erroné) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46881319t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46881319
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The English origins ; The limits and potential of habeas corpus ; Revolution ;
Habeas corpus comes to America ; Habeas corpus in the early United States ; Civil
War and suspension ; Reconstruction and expansion of the writ ; World War II and
the demise of the great writ ; Habeas corpus today.
