Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment : a History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868.

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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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taslitz, Andrew E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 4th Amendment > History.
Constitution (United States)
Searches and seizures > United States > History.
Searches and seizures
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.
  • 12. Law on the StreetNotes; Index; About the Author.

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