Why American Revolutionaries Fought to Protect Habeas Corpus

UE, NATO, Politica externa

The United States has recently witnessed challenges to the right to due process and a fair trial, including a recent explicit threat to habeas corpus by White House official Stephen Miller, and the actual deportation and imprisonment of people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia far from home. American revolutionaries feared such threats. Among the grievances they laid at the feet of British King George III in the Declaration of Independence was that he was “transporting” American colonists “beyond Seas

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