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Habeas Corpus?

 
Habeas Corpus?

It's all about having a day in court

"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or
invasion the public safety may require it."
--U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9


U.S. citizens generally regard the Bill of Rights--the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution--as freedom's most fundamental guarantee. The Constitution's framers, however, treated habeas corpus as even more fundamental than that. They didn't tack habeas corpus on as an amendment. They wrote it into the Constitution's first article.


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