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In the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first century judge,even under the extraordinary circumstances of the "war on terror," invoke a document signed by an English king in the thirteenth century? To address this question, as Robert Pallitto does in this clarifying book, is to probe the history of mode

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Author

Robert M. Pallitto

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700620913

Category

politics

Subjects

History, Law, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-25