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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... human heart. But my zeal for public safety, both from street predators and governmental ones, remains strong. Yet the current system seemed to be failing on both counts, bringing neither security nor freedom. Still worse, the current ...
... humans of the future are almost entirely enslaved by intelligent machines, which have created a “matrix,” a massive, shared, interactive computer program that simultaneously runs through each human's mind. To the humans, the program in ...
... human city of Zion—the sole haven for the few free humans. But the humans use violence to liberate, unify, and protect. Ultimately it is the clash of these two forms of political violence, one degrading and the other uplifting, that are ...
... human worth, insulting individuals or groups, undermining rather than reinforcing desirable republican norms, and suppressing dissenting voices. Abuse also arises when the police de-individualize justice, treating persons on the basis ...
... human flourishing, interests in privacy, property, and freedom of movement. Media images, police talk, and jurisprudence that address primarily the costs of the amendment and only secondarily its benefits—and that too narrowly define ...
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 |