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You Should Have the Body: Understanding Habeas Corpus
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Landman, James – Social Education, 2008
English legal commentator William Blackstone described the writ of habeas corpus as a second Magna Carta, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall called it the "great writ." It has been part of the Anglo-American common law tradition since the Middle Ages. In the United States, it has been a source of tension between state and…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries, Death