<P> The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act , 12 Stat. 755 ( 1863 ) , entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus , and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases , was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the American Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners . It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill , introduced on December 5 , 1862 , releasing the president and his subordinates from any liability for having suspended habeas corpus without congressional approval . The Senate amended the House 's bill , and the compromise reported out of the conference committee altered it to qualify the indemnity and to suspend habeas corpus on Congress 's own authority . Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law on March 3 , 1863 , and suspended habeas corpus under the authority it granted him six months later . The suspension was partially lifted with the issuance of Proclamation 148 by Andrew Johnson , and the Act became inoperative with the end of the Civil War . The exceptions to his Proclamation 148 were the States of Virginia , Kentucky , Tennessee , North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , Arkansas , and Texas , the District of Columbia , and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona . </P>
<P> The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act , 12 Stat. 755 ( 1863 ) , entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus , and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases , was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the American Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners . It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill , introduced on December 5 , 1862 , releasing the president and his subordinates from any liability for having suspended habeas corpus without congressional approval . The Senate amended the House 's bill , and the compromise reported out of the conference committee altered it to qualify the indemnity and to suspend habeas corpus on Congress 's own authority . Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law on March 3 , 1863 , and suspended habeas corpus under the authority it granted him six months later . The suspension was partially lifted with the issuance of Proclamation 148 by Andrew Johnson , and the Act became inoperative with the end of the Civil War . The exceptions to his Proclamation 148 were the States of Virginia , Kentucky , Tennessee , North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , Arkansas , and Texas , the District of Columbia , and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona . </P>
during the civil war this president suspended some of the basic rights of citizens
during the civil war this president suspended some of the basic rights of citizens
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln