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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... John Adams, said of that protest, “then and there was the Child Independence born.” As Adams later wrote, the dispute over the writs marked the “Commencement of the Controversy between Great Britain and 17 Violence as Political Expression.
... John Lovell, a highly respected Boston schoolmaster, condemned the act as “the most pernicious attack upon English Liberty that was ever attempted.” The minister of Brattle Church saw the act as “a revival of the Inquisition, requiring ...
... John Wilkes. Wilkes anonymously published the North Briton series of pamphlets, including Number 45. Number 45 contained unusually bitter insults to a speech given by the king's ministers that defended an unpopular 1763 excise tax on ...
... John Entick had been seized, along with his books and papers, a half year before the North Briton incident, pursuant to a warrant issued by Lord Halifax. Entick was the author of the Monitor or British Freeholder. Although the warrant ...
... John Trenchard and Robert Molesworth that standing armies “were a presage of arbitrary power and therefore a threat to the people's liberty.” The standing-army controversy had cooled because the troops were stationed in the newly won ...
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 |