Origins: the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and suspension in English law -- The making of the privilege -- Suspension: legislating an emergency power -- Rebellion and treason -- Incorporating the privilege and suspension into American law -- Forging a new allegiance -- Enshrining a constitutional privilege -- The Suspension Clause in the early Republic -- Suspension -- Civil War and the "Great Suspender" -- Liberty in the shadow Constitution: suspension and the Confederacy -- Reconstructing the Union and suspending in the name of civil rights -- The forgotten Suspension Clause -- World War II: suspension and martial law in Hawaii and mass detention of Japanese Americans on the mainland -- Habeas corpus today: confronting the age of terrorism.
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