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Prisoners argue constitutionality of
criminal code.
Independent Media Center. 23 Sep 2007
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Criminal Code
Constitutional? IndyMedia.us.
23 Sep 23 2007 @ 18:25 GMT.
Prisoners Argue
the Constitutionality of Criminal Code.
Rense.com.
23 Sep 2007.
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The greatest danger from [federal] ambition is
in criminal cases ... and the writ of habeas corpus will in the
mean time secure the citizen against arbitrary imprisonment, which
has been the source of tyranny in all ages... [T]he great instrument
of arbitrary power is criminal prosecutions. By the privileges of
the habeas corpus no man can be confined without inquiry; and if it
should appear that he has been committed contrary to law, he must be
discharged.
— James Iredell, at the North Carolina Convention for
the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Iredell, one of the original
Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, was appointed by President
George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799.
(In: Debates on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,
Vol. IV. Elliot. Ayer Company Publishers: 1987.
pp. 145, 171.)
[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have
been in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of
tyranny.
—Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the Federalist
Party, was the first delegate chosen for the Constitutional
Convention. He took the lead in the successful campaign for the
Constitution's ratification in
New
York (1788) and was appointed by President George Washington to
be the first Secretary of the Treasury.
(In: The Federlist Papers, No. 84. C. Rossiter,
Ed. Mentor Publishing: 1961. p. 512.)
No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise
detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.
— Public Law 92-128, § 1(a), Sept. 25, 1971, 85 Stat. 347
(codified at Title 18, United States Code, Section 4001(a)).
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