Abraham Lincoln suspended habeascorpus (protection against unlawful imprisonment).
亚伯拉罕·林肯废除了人身权利法(该法令反对非法监禁)。
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Paradoxically, it was the HabeasCorpus Act of 1679, an attempt to give statutory force to the common-law writ, which paved the way for its gradual erosion.
Habeascorpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully. The request is made to the court in a written document called a writ.