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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... territories and the Supreme Court's enthusiastic endorsement of the Southern vision in such infamous cases as Dred Scott further fanned the flames of Northern fear and anger. The Civil War came to seem the fulfillment of Northern ...
... territories, far from population centers, but later events re-ignited that fire.26 In 1764, eight colonies' assemblies endorsed formal petitions sent to the royal authorities claiming that the Sugar Act was causing Americans great ...
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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 |