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.
Laski highlights the fundamental right to habeas corpus as central to the Anglo-American understanding of freedom.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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