 | George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...habeas corpus may be suspended is defined by Lincoln in a letter of June 12, 1863: [T]he habeas corpus provision plainly attests the understanding of those...courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. Habeas corpus does not discharge men who are proved to be guilty of denned crime; and its suspension... | |
 | Joseph A. Klein - Political Science - 2005 - 250 pages
...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,' is the...of justice are inadequate to 'Cases of Rebellion.' Congress passed the Habeas Corpus Indemnity Act on March 3, 1863, which stated that "during the present... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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," is the...Constitution, that ordinary courts of justice are inadequate 171 to "cases of rebellion," — attests their purpose that, in such cases, men guilty of defined crime,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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," is the...courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. Habeas corpus does not discharge men who are proved to be guilty of defined crime; and its suspension... | |
 | Dianne L. Durante - Art - 2007 - 312 pages
...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," is the...provision which specially applies to our present case. I can no more be persuaded that the Government can constitutionally take no strong measures in time... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2007 - 256 pages
...well defined in the law. . . . Ours is a case of rebellion . . . and the [suspension clause] . . . plainly attests the understanding of those who made...Constitution. that ordinary courts of justice are inadequate ... in such cases. Lincoln insisted that "when Rebellion or Invasion comes. the . . . commander-in-chief... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - Political Science - 2007 - 293 pages
...been released, only to replenish the rebellion. Lincoln justified his decision, therefore, by arguing, "men may be held in custody whom the courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge,"5 especially if they are going to be freed a few months later when the momentary danger... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...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," is the...courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. Habeas corpus does not discharge men who are proved to be guilty of defined crime; and its suspension... | |
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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," is the provision which specially applies to our present case. This provision plainly attests the understanding... 
