Archive for November 17th, 2007
Remember that the British government permitted its soldiers to execute self-written search warrants. They called them “writs of assistance,” and they were one of the last straws that caused American colonist to rebel. It’s bitterly ironic that 230 years later a popularly elected government would authorize its own agents to do the same thing that when a monarchy did it, we fought a war of rebellion in reaction—which we won!
— Andrew P. Napolitano, “Americans: Sheep to the
Constitutional Slaughter?” [November 15, 2007]
