Nat Hentoff Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. June 10, 1925
Birthday: June 10
When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.
source: Source: thedailyhatch.org
topic: Writing, Letters, Ambassadors, Habeas Corpus, Magna Carta, English Speaking, Corpus, Paraphrasing
