Excerpt from The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Under the ConstitutionWhen the first part of the essays under this title was written, there was but one aspect in which the public in this nation re garded suspension of the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Cor pus, namely, in relation to the department of our Government that was competent by the Constitution to initiate suspension, under the conditions annexed to that power. The President, the head of the Executive department, had, it was understood, exercised that power in one or more instances, without authority given by Act of Congress, and the legal competency of his ao tion was, for the time, the exclusive point of view to which the eye was directed. The suggestions in Part I of these essays were made to support one hypothesis on this subject, and to contribute what I could to the collections of thought and re mark which were then being made, to settle in the right way a question that was substantially new, and upon which there Were Opposing Opinions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.