Habeas Corpus
RUNNING AHEAD: THE RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS ON THE WAR OF TERROR.
POLITIC 201
Monday, April 29, 2013
RUNNING AHEAD: THE RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS ON WAR TERROR.
Habeas Corpus.
The meaning of Habeas Corpus comes from a Latin base meaning “you have the body” (National Archives). It refers to the right of a person to question his/her incarceration before a judge, intriguingly; the violation of the right of habeas corpus has not been the most severe of civil liberties granted not to Americans only, but many other countries. The right of Habeas Corpus protects a prisoner. It allows a prisoner to point that his or her integrally guaranteed rights to fair treatment in a trial have been broken upon. The most recent controversy regarding habeas corpus was during the Bush administration when hundreds of suspected Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were imprisoned. (http://www.enotes.com). While telling about the Habeas Corpus and the war on terror, my main focus in writing this essay will be on the general meaning of Habeas Corpus, its relationship with civil liberties, its American and English history, its evolution in U.S history of suspension. I will show the relevance of Habeas Corpus to the contempory U.S situation during the war on terror. I will also talk to about its interpretation by the U.S Supreme Court with the respect to “enemy combatants” or “illegal combatants”. To finish, I will give my own evaluation of various perspective on this topic expressed by justice of the Supreme Court, leaders in other branches of the Governments and commentators in both popular and academic media. By definition, Habeas Corpus is one of a variety of writs that may be issued to bring a party before a court or judge, having as its function the release of the party from unlawful restraint or the right of a citizen to obtain such a writ. (http://www.habeascorpus.net). The
RUNNING AHEAD: THE RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS ON WAR TEROR general meaning of Habeas Corpus in the U.S
POLITIC 201
Monday, April 29, 2013
RUNNING AHEAD: THE RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS ON WAR TERROR.
Habeas Corpus.
The meaning of Habeas Corpus comes from a Latin base meaning “you have the body” (National Archives). It refers to the right of a person to question his/her incarceration before a judge, intriguingly; the violation of the right of habeas corpus has not been the most severe of civil liberties granted not to Americans only, but many other countries. The right of Habeas Corpus protects a prisoner. It allows a prisoner to point that his or her integrally guaranteed rights to fair treatment in a trial have been broken upon. The most recent controversy regarding habeas corpus was during the Bush administration when hundreds of suspected Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were imprisoned. (http://www.enotes.com). While telling about the Habeas Corpus and the war on terror, my main focus in writing this essay will be on the general meaning of Habeas Corpus, its relationship with civil liberties, its American and English history, its evolution in U.S history of suspension. I will show the relevance of Habeas Corpus to the contempory U.S situation during the war on terror. I will also talk to about its interpretation by the U.S Supreme Court with the respect to “enemy combatants” or “illegal combatants”. To finish, I will give my own evaluation of various perspective on this topic expressed by justice of the Supreme Court, leaders in other branches of the Governments and commentators in both popular and academic media. By definition, Habeas Corpus is one of a variety of writs that may be issued to bring a party before a court or judge, having as its function the release of the party from unlawful restraint or the right of a citizen to obtain such a writ. (http://www.habeascorpus.net). The
RUNNING AHEAD: THE RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS ON WAR TEROR general meaning of Habeas Corpus in the U.S