...16th, 1790. These may be seen in 1 Elliott's Deb. 370, declaring, in so many words, " that every person has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers, or his property," and warrants to search without oath and seizures by general warrant are "oppressive,"...

...territory of this Republic he shall be free. Security from Search and Arrest. 10. Every person has the right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and effects ; and no warrant shall issue, except on probable cause, supported by...

...Art. XIX, 4 Thorpe 2456. 15) Massachusetts Declaration of Rights of 1780, Art. XIV, 3 Thorpe 1891: "Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if...

...lan^usve later adopted by the Fourth Amendment. It contains a staterae.-t tint every person has a ripht to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and all his possessions; and t;.e requirement that !:• order to be valid, the...

...they happen, is one of the greatest securities of the life, liberty, and property of the citizen. XIV. Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable...person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously...

...Hampshire Constitution, part 1, article 19, giving every citizen "a David Souter Report Page -5right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and all his possessions." Although similar to the federal Fourth Amendment, the...

...Constitution in New York and Virginia, for example, each recommended an amendment stating, "That every freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures. . . ." W. Cuddihy, Search and Seizure in Great Britain and the American Colonies, pt 2, p 571, n 129,...

...provisions regulating arrests, searches, and seizures. The constitution provided that every subject ought "to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person . . . and all his possessions" and more specifically that arrests could be made only under sworn warrants...

...nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. XIV. That every, freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers, and property ; all warrants, therefore, to search suspected places, orseize any freeman, his...

...In his final word on the subject, he urged a constitutional provision "that all persons shall have a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers, or possessions; and that all warrants shall be deemed contrary to this...