Habeas corpus is both a powerful government tool to compel a detainee in the judicial process and perhaps the most revered libertarian check against government power in the Anglo-American tradition. The Great Writ, as it has been called, has been an imperfect remedy against tyrannical imprisonment, one badly in need of a justifying principle.
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Anthony Gregory is a former Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of American Surveillance.
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| Fall 2014 | Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces |
| Fall 2012 | Understanding the U.S. Torture State |
| Summer 2011 | The Struggle to Limit Government |
