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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... criminal “justice” solution. Later in life, I became a law professor, teaching and writing about criminal justice. In that capacity, I became involved in the innocence movement as it became clear that too many of those in our jails and ...
... criminal cases—the arrests, stops, frisks, wiretaps, and other searches and seizures that identify suspects and bring them into the criminal process. Something seemed amiss at this entry point. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. ...
... criminals.” When he refuses, insisting on his rights to silence and to an attorney, the agents make Neo's lips grow together into a silencing mask. They next plant an electronic bug on him, inserting it into his abdomen, so that they ...
... criminal walked free. This image of left-wing judges allowing criminals to exploit the Fourth Amendment and other legal technicalities has long been standard fare in movies, television shows, and newspaper stories. The media feeds the ...
... criminals in the street and against “liberal” rules of law in court. All's fair in this war, including the use of perjury to subvert “liberal” rules of law that might free those who “ought” to be jailed. . . . It is a peculiarity of our ...
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 |