Alexander Hamilton and the Military Commissions Act
What would America's founding fathers think of the Military Commission Act's removal of habeas corpus protection? Alexander Hamilton certainly wouldn't have approved of it. In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton wrote that "arbitrary imprisonments have been in all ages the favourite and most formidable instruments of tyranny."
Through the Military Commissions Act, right wing Democrats and Republicans in Congress have helped George W. Bush revoke the writ of habeas corpus, which requires governments to provide specific information about the reason that prisoners are being held. Habeas corpus is an essential tool in the prevention of arbitrary imprisonment.
What would America’s founding fathers think of the Military Commission Act’s removal of this protection? Alexander Hamilton certainly wouldn’t have approved of it. In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton wrote that “arbitrary imprisonments have been in all ages the favourite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.”
Hint to Young Republicans: Tyranny is a bad thing.
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