what is Habeas Corpus, and why did Abraham Lincoln suspend it ?
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It seems like everyone summed it up pretty well, from my understanding, it’s the due process of proving that said person being arrested is being arrested properly.
As to why anyone would suspend it, I imagine like mentioned before in time of rebellion it allows military police to arrest people and present why later in an effort to stop the rebellion and once everything is “stabilized” and I use that loosely, allows the people who actually started it to be found out.
Long winded here, imagine a big riot causing mayhem destroying everything, instead of individually proving the person you accuse in said riot did indeed participate and here’s the evidence. You brig everyone, stop the chaos, figure out logistics later.
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