{"id":25628,"date":"2017-02-05T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25628"},"modified":"2017-02-05T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:57:57","slug":"foundation-for-economic-education-who-was-the-founding-father-of-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25628","title":{"rendered":"Foundation for Economic Education: Who Was the Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foundation for Economic Education: <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/who-was-the-founding-father-of-the-fourth-amendment\/\">Who Was the Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment?<\/a> by Gary M. Galles:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>February 5 [1725] marks the birth of the American who had the greatest hand in what became the 4th Amendment\u2019s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures \u2013 James Otis. Unfortunately, \u201cone of the most passionate and effective protectors of American rights\u201d is too-little remembered today.  <\/p>\n<p>Otis\u2019 efforts applied the celebrated English maxim, \u201cEvery man\u2019s house is his castle\u201d \u2013 or, as William Pitt said in Parliament in 1763, that \u201cThe poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown\u201d \u2013 to the colonies, in resistance to Crown-created writs of assistance. They were broad search warrants enabling customs officials to enter any business or home without advance notice, probable cause, or reason, which Otis asserted were unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Writ_of_assistance\">Writs of Assistance Case, Paxton&#8217;s Case<\/a>, was argued in the Boston State House on February 24, 1761 when he was 35. February 24th is also the anniversary of this blog. I&#8217;ve written about that case at least a half dozen times in the last 14 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foundation for Economic Education: Who Was the Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment? by Gary M. Galles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25643,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions\/25643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}