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Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire
Paul D. Halliday
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| #1518778 in Books | 2012-04-02 | 2012-03-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.97 x1.29 x5.88l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 512 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent scholarship, a bit dense for the uninitiated|By Scott Henson|Truly impressive primary research and analysis, and for the most part well written, but the book really did become sometimes become a little confusing for anyone not intimately familiar with 17th century court systems. I learned a lot - in fact it made me rethink habeas in many ways - but I also thought it n||Halliday's magisterial revisionist history is as impressive as it is indispensable. (David Armitage, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History)
In clear, at times compelling, prose Halliday offers an outstanding work of hist
We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device.
In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to "liberty"―the...
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