Excerpt from The Trial of the Constitution
As passing events are referred to in the following pages, it is proper to state that the third, fourth and fifth chapters, except a few additions and alterations, were written before the first and second. My original design was to write an essay on the constitutional provision for suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus; and it was suggested by Mr. Binney's first pamphlet on that subject, - the reasoning of which, notwithstanding my deference to such high authority, did not satisfy my mind. Some weeks before the appearance of Mr. Binney's second pamphlet, my argument on the Habeas Corpus was finished; but the writing of it, and the events of the war, had suggested reflections on other parts of the Constitution. I was much impressed by the fact, that Mr. Binney and others had thought it necessary to write on the subject at all; that the law should be unsettled and disputed on questions of such vital importance as the power of the Government to defend the public safety, and the security afforded, by the Constitution, to personal liberty.
Why is the law unsettled? Why can no man tell what are the actual, undoubted powers of the government?
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