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Autore |
Taslitz Andrew E. <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment : a history of search and seizure, 1789-1868 / / Andrew E. Taslitz |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-8147-8421-6 |
0-8147-8315-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Searches and seizures - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-342) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Plugging into the Fourth Amendment's matrix -- Violence as political expression -- The quantity and quality of evidence -- Modern implications I : peoplehood and inter-branch responsibilities -- Modern implications II : precedent and political meaning -- Expressive violence and southern honor -- Slave locomotion -- Mobility's meaning for the South -- Mobility's meaning for the North -- Privacy and property -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Law on the street. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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