Title: Politics by Other Means: Historic Habeas and Modern Implications for the Suspension Clause
Abstract: This Note evaluates the founding concept of habeas corpus in the constitutional scheme. It next demonstrates how a couple of isolated incidences arising out of the unique circumstances in which the nation found itself during the Civil War form the bedrock of the Court's contemporary view of habeas corpus and its suspension; but there is a massive weight of authority pointing another way.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-16
Language: en
Type: article
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