""Decision of Chief Justice Taney in the Merryman Case Upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus, and Habeas Corpus and Martial Law"" is a book written by Roger Brooke Taney in 1862. The book provides a detailed account of the famous Merryman case, where Taney, as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the American Civil War was unconstitutional. Taney's...