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3611. HABEAS CORPUS, Force of.—

I
do not like[in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a bill of rights, providing
clearly and without the aid of sophisms for
* * * the eternal and unremitting force of
the habeas corpus laws.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. ii, 329. Ford ed., iv, 476.
(P. Dec. 1787)