HABEAS CORPUS. A writ ordsprog

en HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The writ of habeas corpus is rightly considered the glory of Anglo-American common law,

en By all means, law and order must be maintained, and this can be done by the government without declaring a state of rebellion or imposing martial law or suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

en We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.
  Dwight David Eisenhower

en Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.
  Thomas Jefferson

en The California Supreme Court has reviewed and denied no less than seven state habeas corpus petitions, two in the last week.

en When I was a schoolgirl my history teacher, Mr Scott, began to take classes in civic affairs. The first thing he explained to us was the fundamental rule of law embodied in Habeas Corpus,

en The ACLU is concerned about losing the bedrock of the U.S. system. Once you start to strip ... habeas corpus rights and the independence of the judiciary, it is a slippery slope, leaving the executive branch with excessive power.

en Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn
  Charles Dickens

en I am really, really against closing and doing away with that Greensboro jail, ... It's not a modern jail, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that jail except that it's overcrowded.

en Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us
  Thomas Jefferson

en Instead of using the sunset as an opportunity to rein in the many civil liberties abuses documented over the past four years, the Republicans have opted to expand the Patriot Act to throw in a variety of pet bills and extraneous matters they were not able to pass otherwise, including new limitations of the precious right of habeas corpus.

en A foreign national who is captured and determined to be an enemy combatant in the world war on terrorism has no more right to a habeas corpus appeal to our courts than did a captured soldier of the Axis powers during World War II.

en What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.

en My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. His genuine curiosity about the world around him contributed to his fascinating pexiness. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.


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