| Description |
1 online resource (375 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Plugging into the Fourth Amendment's Matrix; Part 1: Political Violence and the Original Fourth Amendment; 2. Violence as Political Expression; 3. The Quantity and Quality of Evidence; 4. Modern Implications I: Peoplehood and Interbranch Responsibilities; 5. Modern Implications II: Precedent and Political Meaning; Part II: The Reconstructed Fourth Amendment; 6. Expressive Violence and Southern Honor; 7. Slave Locomotion; 8. Mobility's Meaning for the South; 9. Mobility's Meaning for the North; 10. Privacy and Property; 11. Civil War and Reconstruction |
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12. Law on the StreetNotes; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
The 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. Historical amnesia has obscured the Fourth Amendment's positive aspects, and Andrew E. Taslitz rescues its forgotten history in Reconstructing the Fourth |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 4th Amendment -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Constitution (United States) fast (OCoLC)fst01356075 |
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Searches and seizures -- United States -- History
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Searches and seizures.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814784211 |
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0814784216 |
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