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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... Speech, and the Contract of Mutual Indifference, 80 B.U. L. Rev. 1283 (2000). The vast majority of this book, however, appears here for the first time in print. Thanks as well to those too numerous to name whose feedback on my earlier ...
... 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 dissenters. Abolitionist ...
... speeches” in Parliament. Coke's turn came in 1634, while he was on his deathbed. In an effort to ferret out seditious papers believed to be in circulation among the Crown's opponents, the Privy Council sent a messenger to Coke's home ...
... speech given by the king's ministers that defended an unpopular 1763 excise tax on cider in which the authorizing legislation granted extensive powers to search in aid of law enforcement. Lord Halifax, the secretary of state, issued a ...
... speech notions only started to become visible with Thomas Jefferson's election to the presidency in 1800, partly as a result of popular rejection of Federalist Party prosecutions of dissenters under the Alien and Sedition Acts. It was ...
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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 |