The Body and the State
Subtitle: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence (Suny Series in American Constitutionalism)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780791467046
Subjects: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Criminal Law - General; Legal System; Criminology; Government - National; Jurisprudence; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession
First sentence: THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT era of habeas corpus in American political history extends from the passage of the Habeas Corpus Act in 1867 through 1915, when the Supreme Court denied a writ of habeas corpus to Leo Frank, in the celebrated murder case, Frank v. Magnum.