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Excerpt from The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Under the Constitution It is not the purpose of the following remarks, to treat the subject from either Of the first two points of view, nor to affirm or reject the argument of the attorney-general. The exclusive design Of the writer is to consider the right of the President to arrest and detain, of his own motion, in the required conditions, as derived from the language Of the Constitution, and from the nature of the Executive Office. There are two modes of treating this matter. One of them is the merely legal and artificial. The other is the constitutional and natural. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Under the Constitution, Vol. 2 The principal object of the following paper, is to confront a doctrine of certain writers, that the Habeas Corpus clause in the Constitution does not give power to anybody to suspend the privilege of the Writ, but is only restrictive of the otherwise plenary power of Congress, to withhold, suspend, or repeal the Writ of Habeas Corpus at their more discretion or pleasure. If the Constitution does not give Congress such a power, it seems to be admitted that the power of suspension is given by the Habeas Corpus clause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
