The Fourth Amendment - 9780472076338

The Fourth AmendmentOriginal Understandings and Modern Policing\nAuthor(s): Michael J. Z. Mannheimer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472076338, 978-0472076338\nSynopsis\nPolice are required to obey the law. While that seems obvious, courts have lost track of that requirement due to misinterpreting the two constitutional provisions governing police conduct: the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Fourth Amendment forbids \""unreasonable searches and seizures\"" and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. Although that provision technically applies only to the federal government, the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the wake of the Civil War, has been deemed to apply the Fourth Amendment to the States. This book contends that the courts misinterpretation of these provisions has led them to hold federal and state law enforcement mistakenly to the same constituti.