What is "habeas corpus"? the principle that a person's property cannot be taken by the government without legislative approval the idea that no monarch or other government leader can levy taxes without legislative approval a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect the principle that a person cannot be imprisoned without being charged for a specific crime

Its the last one; you have to be given a reason as to why you are being arrested. However, the president can suspend habeas corpus for good reason and the only one that ever did that was Lincoln and he locked up reporters who were writing harmful criticism against the war and him. Lincoln's approval rating was never good during his presidency and imagine if Nixon did that to like hippies that were protesting the war ...