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

we pointed them north: recollections of a cowpuncher by e.c. “teddy blue” abbott tells us of the history of nomad cowboys in north america. as the   frontiers began moving west, trails of cowboys of the 1870s and ’80s drove herds of cattle from texas to the northern ranges and railheads, and then rode back south to do it again. they gradually pushed   native americans out of their lands, until in 1889 the   government transferred white   colonists the indian land.