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1. Eric Sterner Charles Lee—The Continental Army’s Most Prolific Essayist General

Nice to see Lee get his due as a political thinker and pamphleteer. He usually gets attention for his military reputation and skills or his relationship with Washington, so it's…
2. Bob Unreasonable Searches and Seizures: The Common Law Origins of the Fourth Amendment

Nothing in the English Bill of rights of 1689 was new or novel to the Common Law. That instrument was a restatement of already established rights and liberties that the…
3. John Fitzhugh Millar Unreasonable Searches and Seizures: The Common Law Origins of the Fourth Amendment

I have not read it in many years, but it seems to me that most if not all of the language of the Fourth Amendment first appeared in Parliament's epic…