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  • Habeas Corpus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    HABEAS CORPUS ha be s kor p s Lat.,=you should...before applying to a federal judge for habeas corpus. The term is mentioned as early as the...in England, and was formalized in the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. The privilege of the use...
     
  • Martial Law
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...judicial functions, and civil safeguards (e.g., habeas corpus and freedom of speech) may also be suspended. Where...the Constitution, which concerns the suspension of habeas corpus. In most U.S. states, martial law may be proclaimed...
     
  • Liberty , in Political Science
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...varies with time and place. In England prior to the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) a person could be seized and kept in prison...danger some rights may be suspended, as was the right of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln in the American Civil War...
     
  • Milligan, Ex Parte
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Congress, President Lincoln in 1863 suspended the writ of habeas corpus in cases where military officers held persons for offenses...Supreme Court did not deal directly with the question of habeas corpus but with the limitation of martial law. It held that...
     
  • Johnson, Herschel Vespasian
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1862 65) in the Confederate senate, where he refused to support conscription and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Johnson was president of the 1865 Georgia constitutional convention and was elected (1866) to the U.S. Senate...
     

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