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" in The New Republic in 1993
Our prayers feel trivial
When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled
a startling discovery drastically alters their path and the stakes of their escape
This belief takes many forms: for instance
Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire " in The New RepublicWe call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device. In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to