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To: capitan_refugio
Quote it instead.

I've already quoted it to you about a dozen times including the other thread and NC provided it here. The fact that you have yet to catch on or seemingly to even read the quote yet makes subsequent postings of it a wasted effort. Nevertheless, I will oblige you one more time:

"Those respecting the press, religion, & juries, with several others, of great value, were accordingly made; but the Habeas corpus was left to the discretion of Congress, and the amendment against the reeligibility of the President was not proposed by that body." - Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

253 posted on 08/29/2004 1:16:00 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist; capitan_refugio
See Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (Dec. 20, 1787), reprinted in 8 Documentary History 250 ("I do not like... the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms... for the eternal & unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws"); Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald (Feb. 7, 1788), reprinted in id. at 354 (Hoping that Constitution would be amended "by a declaration of rights which shall stipulate... no suspension of the habeas corpus"); Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, (Feb. 2, 1788), reprinted in 14 id. at 500 (containing same idea).

Source: Eric M. Freedman, HABEAS CORPUS Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty, paperback edition, Footnote 18 at page 159.

273 posted on 08/29/2004 4:55:43 AM PDT by nolu chan
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