Article 1, Section 9 says: The
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended... unless when in cases of rebellion the
public safety require it.
People have rights, not privileges.
It appears that a writ of habeas corpus protects "the government", not the people. The second sentence reads...unless when in cases of rebellion the PUBLIC (not people) safety require it. Who is the public, but the government.
I didn't know the words "public" and "privilege" were even in the original organic constitution.
The right of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended... unless when in cases of rebellion the people's safety require it.
http://www.budget.net/~ooglah/OOgLAH/VACCI/DOPREJUD.HTM
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/history/Pinacup.htm#1
Article 1, Section 9 states: "
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, . . ." This grants the citizen the freedom from imprisonment or detention without due process. The proviso, "
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety require it" indicates the necessity to provide for some contingencies to that security. This proviso carries the possibility for abuse. No document of liberty, however, could possibly proscribe all potential for misuse of those liberties without actually eliminating them in the process. It has been said that "communism is nothing more than democracy with all potential for abuse legislated out". Does "America" toe that party line?
It is important to note that according to the "War and Emergency Powers Act" the United States has legally been under a state of national emergency since its enactment in 1933. The enactment has never been repealed, thus leaving the president with instant powers to avoid the Constitution. Most legal scholars and legislators who have studied the matter concur that the War and Emergency Powers Act has, in reality, suspended the Constitution since the moment the act was signed into law by President Roosevelt. The actual suspension of those constitutional rights awaits only the impetus of any national emergency requiring it.