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A Dictionary of American History
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Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus The writ of Habeas Corpus (i.e. “you have the body”) orders law officers to release a detainee from custody unless they can justify his arrest. The Constitution protects it under Article I, Section 9. Union authorities denied Habeas Corpus to over 14,000 persons arrested in the Civil War in actions judged illegal by Ex Parte Merryman and Ex Parte Milligan. The Ku Klux Klan Act suspended Habeas Corpus in nine S.C. counties in 1871.
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Habeas Corpus," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JX1QGNU2BIPA21P.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Habeas Corpus." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JX1QGNU2BIPA21P.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Habeas Corpus' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JX1QGNU2BIPA21P.
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