Sentence examples for general warrant from inspiring English sources
America is not the land of the general warrant and pervasive state surveillance.
A general warrant (one that did not name the persons to be arrested) was issued.
The government reacted by issuing a general warrant under which Wilkes and 48 additional persons were arrested.
1029, 1031, 10631074 (C. P. 1765) (disapproving search of plaintiffs private papers under general warrant, despite arrest).
The NSA's metadata collection program is a general warrant for the modern age, reflecting the same kind of tyranny our nation's founders fought a revolution to make sure would never happen again.
Because the keys could expose the e-mail of all Lavabit users, Levison argues that the order is essentially "a modern-day writ of assistance" — a general warrant permitting the government to ransack all the digital homes in Lavabit City.
Details like so-called generic (emphatically not "general") warrants for certain kinds of enquiries can be sensibly devised.
We have an American constitutional tradition against general warrants.
A warrant authorizing such devices is no different from the general warrants the Fourth Amendment was intended to prohibit.
"In doing so, it has upended a longstanding English common law principle that such general warrants are unlawful.
The Fourth Amendment's words do indeed prohibit general warrants — warrants lacking "probable cause" — but this language regulating warrants simply does not apply where no warrants are involved.
