John Wilkes & The Colorful, Criminal & Bawdy Origins of our 4th Amendment
Part 2 In an Ongoing Series on the Revolutionary War
By Scott
John Wilkes, the bad boy of 18th century British politics — hated by King George III and beloved by the American colonists — wasn’t the only inspiration for our Fourth Amendment prohibition against the government using general warrants to search for evidence and to arrest for a crime. But his story was by far the most colorful.
