261 Creating the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution doesn’t always make headlines, but it’s an amendment that undergirds foundational rights. It’s also an amendment that can show us a lot about the intertwined nature between history and American law.  

In this 3rd episode of our 4th Doing History series, we explore the early American origins of the Fourth Amendment with Thomas Clancy, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Law and an expert on the Fourth Amendment.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the Oma Hundro Institute.
0:04.3	John Adams to William Tudor Sr.
0:12.3	29 March 1817.
0:15.0	Dear sir, the scene is the council chamber of the old townhouse in Boston.
0:22.0	The date is the month of February, 1761, nine years before you came to me in
0:28.8	Col Lane, as this was five years before you entered college.
0:33.4	That council chamber was as respectable an apartment
0:37.6	and more so too in proposition
0:39.9	than the House of Lords or House of Commons in Great Britain,
0:43.7	or that in Philadelphia in which the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
0:50.6	In this chamber, near the fire, were seated five judges with Lieutenant Governor Thomas
0:56.1	Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all in their new fresh robes of Searles English
1:02.3	cloth in their broadbands and immense judicial
1:05.8	wigs.
1:07.4	In this chamber was seated at a long table all the barristers of Boston and its neighboring county of Middlesex in their gowns, bands, and tie wigs.
1:18.5	You now have the stage and the scenery.
1:21.6	Next follows a narration of the subject. I rather think that we
1:26.0	lawyers ought to call it of Ben Franklin's world. Hello and I'm your host Liz Kove.
1:44.7	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early
1:49.7	American past have shaped the present-day world we live in. And I'm your host Liz Kovart.
1:55.0	The Bill of Rights.
1:57.0	The Bill of Rights is the term that we use to refer to the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.
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