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Harold J. Laski: “No principle is better established than the right of the citizen, under proper circumstances, to a writ of habeas…”

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No principle is better established than the right of the citizen, under proper circumstances, to a writ of habeas corpus; that is, perhaps, the ark of the covenant in the Anglo-American conception of freedom.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski highlights the fundamental right to habeas corpus as central to the Anglo-American understanding of freedom.

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