English jurists limit search and seizure / Nelson Lasson
An American colonist opposes general search warrants / James Otis
The original understanding of the Fourth Amendment / Bradford Wilson
The court establishes the exclusionary rule / William Day
The exclusionary rule is applied to the states / Thomas Campbell Clark
Warrantless wiretapping is ruled constitutional / William Howard Taft
The Fourth Amendment protects people's private communications / Potter Stewart
The Katz Decision changed the application of the Fourth Amendment / Charles Moylan Jr.
The Supreme Court has fundamentally misinterpreted the Fourth Amendment / Akhil Reed Amar
The Fourth Amendment limits schools' powers to search students / Benjamin Dowling-Sendor
New technologies create new threats to privacy rights / Jeffrey Rosen
The Patriot Act threatens Fourth Amendment rights / Samuel Dash
The Patriot Act does not threaten Fourth Amendment rights / Viet Dinh.
From the Online Reference Materials
Early developments in limiting search and seizure
The Supreme Court applies the Fourth Amendment
Current perspectives on search and seizure.