Excerpt from The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Under the Constitution

It is not the purpose of the following remarks, to treat the subject from either Of the first two points of view, nor to affirm or reject the argument of the attorney-general. The exclusive design Of the writer is to consider the right of the President to arrest and detain, of his own motion, in the required conditions, as derived from the language Of the Constitution, and from the nature of the Executive Office.

There are two modes of treating this matter. One of them is the merely legal and artificial. The other is the constitutional and natural.

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