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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... story on the news or in pulp fiction. It seemed odd to me, a white kid growing up in the Bronx, that there were so few white faces, just as a matter of sheer probabilities. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in which many kids ...
... stories of whites suffering insults and abuse at the hands of the police, particularly during traffic stops. Meanwhile, the war on drugs was taking its toll on Hispanic communities, the war on terror on Muslim ones. The range of ...
... story, I dug further into the history of both the original and the mutated Fourth Amendments. What I found did not always match my preconceptions, but it did confirm my sense that we were on the wrong path. This book looks to the past ...
... Stories of Fourth Amendment Disrespect: From Elian to the Internment, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 2257 (2002); and Hate Crimes, Free Speech, and the Contract of Mutual Indifference, 80 B.U. L. Rev. 1283 (2000). The vast majority of this book ...
... stories. The media feeds the impression of a massive, increasingly violent crime problem. That problem is portrayed as exacerbated by the helpless system's flooding of the streets with guilty men freed by wily lawyers. Recent reports of ...
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 |