Author: Rollin Carlos HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extradition
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty, and on the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Practice Connected with it
Author: Rollin Carlos HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extradition
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty
Author: Rollin Carlos HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extradition
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty, and on the Writ of Habeas Corpus, and the Practice Connected with It. With a View of the Law of Extratdition of Fugitives ... Second Edition, with Notes, by F. H. Hurd
Author: Rollin C. HURDFree Men All
Author: Thomas D. MorrisPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584771070
Category : Personal liberty laws
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index
The Western Law Monthly
Author: The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: Library of CongressCatalogue of the Library of Congress: Aargau to Lichfield
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Habeas Corpus in America
Author: Justin J. WertPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700636021
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For most Americans, habeas corpus is the cornerstone of our legal system: the principal constitutional check on arbitrary government power, allowing an arrested person to challenge the legality of his detention. In a study that could not be more timely, Justin Wert reexamines this essential individual right and shows that habeas corpus is not necessarily the check that we've assumed. Habeas corpus, it emerges, is as much a tool of politics as it is of law. In this first study of habeas corpus in an American political context, Wert shifts our collective emphasis from the judicial to the political-toward the changes in the writ influenced by Congress, the president, political parties, state governments, legal academics, and even interest groups. By doing so, he reveals how political regimes have used habeas corpus both to undo the legacies of their predecessors and to establish and enforce their own vision of constitutional governance. Tracing the history of the writ from the Founding to Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Boumediene v. Bush, Wert illuminates crucial developmental moments in its evolution. He demonstrates that during the antebellum period, Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Great Society, and the ongoing war on terrorism, habeas corpus has waxed and waned in harmony with the interests of majoritarian politics. Along the way, Wert identifies and explains the political context of fine points of law that many political scientists and historians may not be aware of—such as the exhaustion rule requiring that a federal habeas participant must first exhaust all possible claims for relief in state court, a maneuver by which the post-Reconstruction Court abandoned supervision of race relations in the South. Especially in light of the new scrutiny of habeas corpus prompted by the Guantánamo detainees, Wert's book is essential for broadening our understanding of how law and politics continue to intersect after 9/11. Brimming with fresh insights into constitutional development and regime theory, it shows that the Great Writ of Liberty may not be so great as we have supposed-because while it has the potential to enforce conceptions of rights that are consistent with the best ideals of American politics, it also has the potential to enforce its worst aspects as well.
Governing the Hearth
Author: Michael GrossbergPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786336X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law--antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody--remained in effect well into the twentieth century.