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Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire Our prayers feel trivial

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Our prayers feel trivial

when I was fourteen

and wholly remarkable" (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers

This belief takes many forms: for instance

Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire Our prayers feel trivialWe call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device. In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to

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