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...Unfortunately a core principle of the English legal system is habeas corpus — which, legal experts say, is something about having a body....
...Dicey, is that there is no limit to what “the Queen in Parliament” can do: make wars, abrogate individual rights, suspend habeas corpus, and so on....
...Somehow it’s always a choice between hundreds of corpses and habeas corpus. The police state has a natural ally in the nanny state, born in 1945 to replace warfare with welfare....
...a writ of habeas corpus – an ancient judicial procedure, dating back to the time of England’s Magna Carta and enshrined in the US constitution, which allows prisoners to fight arbitrary imprisonment....
...“We based it on civil law and habeas corpus,” he says, “but we weren’t saying let them out. It was much milder than that.”...
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