The US vs Dakota war in 1862 was an armed conflict between the United States and many bands of Dakota (known as Sioux Indians) .
The violation of some treaty by the US caused an increased of Dokota's hunger and a war of four years.
During war the Dakotas made attacks wich resulted in several settlers and immigrant deaths. The US goverment with the desire of revenge, captured hundreds of Dakota men an families, then, with military tribunal quickly tried the men, sentencing 303 to death for their crimes. President Lincoln would later commute the sentence of 264 of them. The mass hanging of 38 Dakota men was in Minnesota; it was the largest mass execution in United States history.
The correct answer is the principle of <em>Habeas Corpus</em>. Indeed, the Magna Carta charter declared that:
“No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land.”
And the United States Constitution very explicitly declares in its Article one, Suspension Clause number 2 that:
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it".
This was especially important since during the Revolutionary War, the British arrested lots of people arbitrarily and also abused them and denied them legal representation.
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