Habeas Corpus and the Rights

The Right of Habeas Corpus

Lavina Kindlon

POL 201

Professor Chancey

June 27, 2014

The Right of Habeas Corpus

Introduction

Throughout antiquity, the inspiration of man’s personal significance has been fulfilled in the dominance of those with insignificance or no authority in the nonexistence of the reign of the law. The war on terror has bestowed the United States with an arbitrary confrontation while terrorists are dispossessed of their due process rights after being detained. The right of Habeas Corpus claims superiority of man’s interpretation, in which sanctions those denunciated state and federal court portrayal before a judge or jury. It also proclaims that plaintiffs are considered in the clear until they are proven to be guilty, and they posse the right to counsel, arrive in person, and charges be conveyed. The attentiveness on the expansion of habeas corpus, and its adjournment by the United States, its attitude thru the war on terror, and the United States Supreme Court’s clarification will be the attentiveness brought forth during this paper. Nonetheless, these laws are in standings to defend every one and to evade unlawful detention. Furthermore, to certify that the mechanisms of habeas corpus is upheld to the standards of the Constitution by all

Historical Evolution of Habeas Corpus

The historical history of habeas corpus began in the medieval times when the inaugural words of the writ of habeas corpus were ‘You may have the body’. During this time the writ of habeas corpus was used to bring detainees to testify. What some thought as a deterrent of the courts has developed with time a safeguard versus random detention, and still today signifies the unforgettable belief that illegal confinement could be proximately disputed. However, today habeas corpus signifies to a writ in which it is compulsory that an individual who is imprisoned by authorities must be transported to a court of law in effort to establish if their confinement...