POL SCI 145E Lecture 8: 2_5_19 Lecture
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Habeas was an inquiry into the appropriateness of some officers having jurisdiction over somebody in the 16th century. Habeas action meant somebody had somebody in custody. When charles gets heavy handed and asks for ship money and gets turned down so he gets 5 people thrown in jail for it. Its called the 5 knights case or darnells case in 1627. It brings about the petition of right, the first important documentary throwing down of the gauntlet of charles. No quartering soldiers, no subsides for your project unless he accepts the petition. Charles accepted the petition in order to get his subsidy. Charles gets beheaded later down the road. Then the civil war happened and then . 1678 popish plot (think pope in the old religion hierarchy) Charles the second is on the throne and he marries a catholic. His brother james the second is a catholic.
