We trace the Fourth Amendment from colonial protests against general warrants to modern rules for warrants, cars, phones, and digital surveillance. We explain probable cause, reasonableness, and how courts adapt old principles to new technology without watering them down. • roots in English common law and colonial resistance to general warrants • James Otis’s protest and John Adams’s influence on state constitutions • probable cause, sworn affidavits, and particularity in warrants • the auto...
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We trace the Fourth Amendment from colonial protests against general warrants to modern rules for warrants, cars, phones, and digital surveillance. We explain probable cause, reasonableness, and how courts adapt old principles to new technology without watering them down. • roots in English common law and colonial resistance to general warrants • James Otis’s protest and John Adams’s influence on state constitutions • probable cause, sworn affidavits, and particularity in warrants • the auto...
A lot of people say the Constitution is outdated; fewer can explain how its design actually came to be. We walk through the ideas that turned Enlightenment philosophy into a durable framework: why the founders insisted on a written constitution, how separation of powers disciplines ambition, and what makes federalism a bold way to scale a republic across a continent without flattening local life. Along the way, we unpack the surprising truth that America embraced a moderate Enlightenment—open...
Civics In A Year
We trace the Fourth Amendment from colonial protests against general warrants to modern rules for warrants, cars, phones, and digital surveillance. We explain probable cause, reasonableness, and how courts adapt old principles to new technology without watering them down. • roots in English common law and colonial resistance to general warrants • James Otis’s protest and John Adams’s influence on state constitutions • probable cause, sworn affidavits, and particularity in warrants • the auto...
