1. CONCERNING SEARCHES AND SEIZURES.
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Fraenkel, Osmond K.
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CONSTITUTIONAL amendments , *SEARCHES & seizures (Law) , *CIVIL rights , *LAW enforcement , *CONSTITUTIONAL amendments (United States) - Abstract
The article presents information on various amendments to the Constitution of the U.S., and different laws related to searches and seizures of property and papers. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. discusses about the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures and issue of warrants. Constitutional provisions more or less similar to this one exist in all the states, except in New York where such a limitation appears in the Civil Rights Law. It is well known that the adoption in 1791 of the first ten amendments resulted from the agitation for a Bill of Rights which attended the ratification of the Constitution.
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- 1921
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