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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790375803321

Autore

Schulhofer Stephen J

Titolo

More Essential Than Ever : The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century  / / Stephen J. Schulhofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-975299-0

0-19-025976-0

1-280-77752-4

9786613687913

0-19-975322-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Inalienable Rights

Disciplina

345.730522

Soggetti

Privacy, Right of

Constitutions - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: Our Fourth Amendment Tradition; CHAPTER THREE: Searches and Arrests; CHAPTER FOUR: Policing Public Spaces; CHAPTER FIVE: The Administrative State; CHAPTER SIX: Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, and the Information Age; CHAPTER SEVEN: The National Security Challenge; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Fourth Amendment Today: Misunderstood but Indispensable; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be ""secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."" Of course, ""papers and effects"" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat may be our own weakening resolve to preserve our privacy.In this potent new volume in Oxford's Inalienable Rights series, legal expert Stephen J. Schulhofer argues that the Fourth Amendment remains,