{"id":3672,"date":"2010-04-21T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2010-04-21T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:06:27","slug":"the_decline_of_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"The decline of the Great Writ: The sad history of habeas corpus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905883&amp;source=hptextfeature\">The Economist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire\">Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire. By Paul Halliday<\/a>. Harvard University Press; 502 pages; $39.95 and \u00a329.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWHEN discussing habeas corpus or the \u201cGreat Writ of Liberty\u201d, as the most revered legal device of the Anglophone world is often known, jurists and civil libertarians tend to become misty-eyed. In 1777 Charles James Fox, a radical British politician, described habeas corpus during a parliamentary debate on its suspension as \u201cthe great palladium of the liberties of the subject\u201d and deplored the \u201cinsolence and temerity\u201d of those \u201cwho could thus dare to snatch it from the people\u201d.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nNearly 230 years later, in an impassioned attack from the Senate floor on the Bush administration\u2019s bill to suspend habeas corpus for anyone determined to be an \u201cunlawful enemy combatant\u201d, Barack Obama declared: \u201cI do not want to hear that this is a new kind of world in which we face a new kind of enemy.\u201d Another senator, Arlen Specter, roared: \u201cThe right of habeas corpus was established in the Magna Carta in 1215\u2026what the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years.\u201d In Britain, Lord Hoffmann, a law lord reviewing government \u201ccontrol orders\u201d to detain terrorist suspects in 2007, thundered: \u201cSuch is the revulsion against detention without charge or trial, such is this country\u2019s attachment to habeas corpus, that the right to liberty ordinarily trumps even the interests of national security.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905883&amp;source=hptextfeature\">The Economist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire\">Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire. By Paul Halliday<\/a>. Harvard University Press; 502 pages; $39.95 and \u00a329.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWHEN discussing habeas corpus or the \u201cGreat Writ of Liberty\u201d, as the most revered legal device of the Anglophone world is often known, jurists and civil libertarians tend to become misty-eyed. In 1777 Charles James Fox, a radical British politician, described habeas corpus during a parliamentary debate on its suspension as \u201cthe great palladium of the liberties of the subject\u201d and deplored the \u201cinsolence and temerity\u201d of those \u201cwho could thus dare to snatch it from the people\u201d.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nNearly 230 years later, in an impassioned attack from the Senate floor on the Bush administration\u2019s bill to suspend habeas corpus for anyone determined to be an \u201cunlawful enemy combatant\u201d, Barack Obama declared: \u201cI do not want to hear that this is a new kind of world in which we face a new kind of enemy.\u201d Another senator, Arlen Specter, roared: \u201cThe right of habeas corpus was established in the Magna Carta in 1215\u2026what the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years.\u201d In Britain, Lord Hoffmann, a law lord reviewing government \u201ccontrol orders\u201d to detain terrorist suspects in 2007, thundered: \u201cSuch is the revulsion against detention without charge or trial, such is this country\u2019s attachment to habeas corpus, that the right to liberty ordinarily trumps even the interests of national security.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8,14,33,44,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}