Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868The modern law of search and seizure permits warrantless searches that ruin the citizenry's trust in law enforcement, harms minorities, and embraces an individualistic notion of the rights that it protects, ignoring essential roles that properly-conceived protections of privacy, mobility, and property play in uniting Americans. Many believe the Fourth Amendment is a poor bulwark against state tyrannies, particularly during the War on Terror. |
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... Slave patrols, designed to prevent runaways and maintain slave discipline, consisted of state officials whose authority stemmed from an antebellum version of general warrants. State and federal fugitive-slave laws provided fairly ...
... Slave Power” enriched by human bondage threatened white civil liberties. The expansion of slavery into Western ... fugitive-slave laws were still binding in the face of rebellion and what freedom should mean for the slaves. After the ...
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Contents
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THE RECONSTRUCTED FOURTH AMENDMENT | 91 |
Slave Locomotion | 106 |
Mobilitys Meaning for the South | 131 |
Mobilitys Meaning for the North | 157 |
Notes | 279 |
Index | 343 |
About the Author | 363 |