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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
No wonder it appears to be ambiguous. It seems the existing phrasing of the amendment was a defeated modification of the original, but slipped in anyway. Had Madison's original wording remained intact (as it apparently should have, given that the House defeated the motion to change it) I think it would be a lot more clear that the two clauses are related and that the only reasonable searches are those that meet the listed conditions required to obtain a warrant (ie. probable cause, et al.)
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Cool stuff, vm. Thanks for researching this.
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