who suspended the writ of habeas corpus?
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William Pitt, worried that the French Revolution might inspire rebellion in England, suspended habeas corpus in 1793 after France declared war on Britain; other restrictions on free speech and public meetings were imposed at the same time.
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From Latin habeās, 2nd person singular present subjunctive active of habēre, "to have", "to hold"; and corpus, accusative singular of corpus, "body". In reference to more than one person, habeas corpora. Literally, the phrase means "[we command] that you should have the [detainee's] body [brought to court]".
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NOUN suspends Law programme. The National Open University of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday formally announced the suspension of admissions into its Law programme. ... Abdallah Adamu, was sequel to the exclusion of graduates of its Law programme by the Council for Legal Education, from attending the Nigerian Law School.
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The Supreme Court of the United States subsequently held that the Act was an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional authority under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were never appealed to the Supreme Court, whose power of judicial review was not clearly established until Marbury v. Madison in 1803. Subsequent mentions in Supreme Court opinions beginning in the mid-20th century have assumed that the Sedition Act would today be found unconstitutional.
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7. Enemy combatants may have their Habeas Corpus rights — the right for anyone imprisoned by America to challenge their imprisonment — suspended. Therefore, they can be imprisoned for an indefinite period of time without being able to challenge it.
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Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts. Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land.
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The Sedition Act of 1798. ... In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.
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Katy, Texas, U.S. Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), better known by the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
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Yoder, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1972, ruled (7–0) that Wisconsin's compulsory school attendance law was unconstitutional as applied to the Amish (primarily members of the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church), because it violated their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.
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['Marbury v. Madison (1803) ... ', 'Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) ... ', 'Worcester v. Georgia (1832) ... ', 'Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) ... ', 'Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) ... ', 'Munn v. Illinois (1877) ... ', 'Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ... ', 'Lochner v. New York (1905)']
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['Samuel Brannan.', 'Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.', 'William D. Bradshaw.', 'Gideon Brooke.', 'Charles Crocker.', 'Alonzo Delano.', 'Charles S. Fairfax.', 'Thomas Fallon.']
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Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), better known by the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
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Of all the bills that made up the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It denied a fugitive's right to a jury trial.
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['George Childress. Principal author of the Declaration of Independence.', 'William B. Travis. ... ', 'Sam Houston. Commander of the Texas Army.', 'Lorenzo de Zavala. Named vice-president of the new Republic of Texas.', 'Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. ... ', 'Stephen F. ... ', 'David G. ... ', 'David Crockett.']
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Dissent by Justices Frankfurter and Harlan Frankfurter, joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan II, dissented vigorously and at length, arguing that the Court had cast aside history and judicial restraint, and violated the separation of powers between legislatures and Courts.
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House Joint Resolution-192. On June 5, 1933, Congress enacted HJR-192 to suspend the gold standard and to abrogate the gold clause. ... This resolution declared that any obligation requiring "payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency, or in an amount in money policy; and . . .