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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... houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched ...
... House of Representatives.10 Daniel Fowle, suspected of being the Monster's author, was “dragged from his dinner one night” to answer the charge before the House. Fowle admitted only that he sold the pamphlet. He was promptly imprisoned ...
... House of Commons subsequently voted Number 45 a seditious libel and expelled Wilkes, who was eventually convicted and jailed for the offense.14 Wilkes, the printers, and all others who had suffered searches and arrests quickly filed ...
... house) “stopped at nothing” to get the name of a citizen who had assailed that House for approving provisions for the king's troops in 1769. Alexander McDougall, a leader of the Sons of Liberty, was soon fingered as the offending author ...
... House of Commons in 1764, 1765, and 1766 over the legality of general warrants. Ultimately, the House passed three resolutions that took a narrower position than had Pratt, now Lord Camden: first, general warrants for arrest were ...
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 |