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communists and the Fourth Amendment  

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  • Although government activities against communists in the United States were most often associated with First and Fifth Amendment violations, communists were also victims of Fourth Amendment violations by federal, state, and local officials throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many were warrantless searches. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Communists and the Fourth Amendment]

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