Question: Write a critical thought: The Fourth Amendment commands that no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing

Write a critical thought:

The Fourth Amendment commands that "no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." According to the distinguished SCOTUS Justice Felix Frankfurter: "With minor and severely confined exceptions every search is unreasonable when made without a magistrate's authority expressed through a validly issued warrant" (Harris v. U.S. 1947, 162; see "Neutral Magistrates" in Chapter 5). Despite Justice Frankfurter's often repeated words, there are so many exceptions to the warrant requirement (up to thirty, depending on how you count them) that the searches without warrants far outnumber searches with warrants.

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