The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against ev…

Thomas Jefferson
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The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.257
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