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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... efforts to make this book worthwhile. A Stylistic Note: I hope that the text of this book will be of interest to anyone with a love of American history, specialist or not. Specialists, however, who may wish to explore a particular issue ...
... efforts to suppress dissent in infamous seditious-libel prosecutions. But the amendment's origins also lay in a violent dispute over what it means for the state to “represent” the People. Mob actions during the Revolutionary period were ...
... efforts have shown, respect-enhancing police actions improve law enforcement effectiveness. Citizens more actively and eagerly cooperate with a respectful police force. The result is crime reduction.31 “Respect” is in part about status ...
... effort to suppress the speech of those who sought the abolition of human bondage. Although the abolitionists were unpopular in the North, many Northerners were nevertheless outraged by Southern and federal efforts to silence these ...
... efforts to tighten patrols and myriad other restraints on slaves' free movement, and as black troops fought bravely for Union when dire circumstances pressed the federal government into permitting escaped slaves to join the fight ...
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 |