Search and Seizure and The Fourth and Fifth Amendments

Written By: Gerald R. Thompson  |  Posted: Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

From "Property Rights Under The Fourth and Fifth Amendments"
http://www.lonang.com/curriculum/2/s22.htm#E

Having laid a foundation for recognizing the right of property as an unalienable right, I now wish to examine how this right has been treated in the United States Constitution, particularly in the Bill of Rights. I will examine primarily the fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution for this purpose. This discussion is not an attempt to examine the full scope of either amendment in detail but is merely intended to provide a framework of analysis within which the property aspects of each provision may be understood consistently with the law of nature.

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