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- Writs of Assistance Case
The Writs of Assistance case involved a legal dispute during 1761 in which 63 Boston merchants petitioned the Massachusetts S...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Ter–Z
- United States v. Grubbs, 547 U. S. (2006)
... part in the consideration or decision of the case. . Opinion of the Court. NOTICE: This opinion is s... Postal inspectors, with appropriate assistance from other law enforcement officers in accordance ... even of the objectionable 18th-century writs of assistance, see, e.g., Massachusetts Writs of A...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning.
...The results in cases, however, rarely depended on how the Court interpr... experience with the general search and writs of assistance led America to reject the general wa...
- Michigan Law Review
- Vol. 109 Nbr. 6, April 2011

- Advice and Consent vs. Silence and Dissent? The Contrasting Roles of the Legislature in U.S. and U.K. Judicial Appointments
- Louisiana Law Review
- Nbr. 71-2, January 2011
- United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984)
... so as to bar the use in the prosecution's case in chief of evidence obtained by officers acting i...ed. 1983); Marke, The Writs of Assistance Case and the Fourth Amendment, in Es...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Unreasonable Searches and Seizures; Rights and Liberties Under the Law.
... origins of the amendment in the colonial Writs of Assistance Case and later in the building of th...
- Reference and Research Book News
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 1, February 2007
- Otis, James, Jr.
... British governance of the colonies in the WRITS OF ASSISTANCE CASE in 1761 was one of the most imp...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Mc–Pl
- Paxton's Case Gray, Mass. Repts., 51 469 (1761)
... considered whether to continue issuing WRITS OF ASSISTANCE, which, by a British statute of 1662...
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
- KA-PU
- Framing the Fourth
The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning, 602-1791, by William J. Cuddihy, is reviewed.

...The results in cases, however, rarely depended on how the Court interpr... experience with the general search and writs of assistance led America to reject the general wa...
- The Court, the Constitution, and the History of Ideas
This Article argues that constitutional law scholars pay too much attention to political outcomes and too little to political philosophy. The Article posits that identifying the U.S. Supreme Court's role in the American constitutional order-the question scholars have been trying to answer for generations-is an exegesis in the history of ideas, rather than a lawyer's brief about policy results. Although the Article is ultimately about a number of the most significant political philosophers of all time (e.g., Aristotle, Montesquieu), it examines the dominant constitutional theory of the present day-popular constitutionalism-to illustrate why scholars need to spend less time reacting to recent high Court decisions and more time studying the ancient, medieval, and modern political philosoph...

....8 If that were not enough, Kramer pled his case for popular constitutionalism to television viewer... Roman Emperor Louis IV enlisted his assistance in the Emperor's struggle with Pope John XXII over... Superior Court in 1761 in the famous writs of assistance case, Paxton v. Gray.293 According t...
- Vanderbilt Law Review
- Vol. 61 Nbr. 4, May 2008