Amendment IV



Document 10

Maryland Constitution of 1776, Declaration of Rights, art. 23

Thorpe 3:1688

That all warrants, without oath or affirmation, to search suspected places, or to seize any person or property, are grievous and oppressive; and all general warrants--to search suspected places, or to apprehend suspected persons, without naming or describing the place, or the person in special--are illegal, and ought not to be granted.


The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment IV, Document 10
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIVs10.html
The University of Chicago Press

Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.

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