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Amendment IV doesn't actually expressly include a warrant requirement for anything.

It requires searches and seizures to be reasonable.

It also creates requirements for the basis of any warrants that are issued.

It is a series of Supreme Court rulings that infers a general warrant requirement with some exceptions from that text.




The biggest weasel word of all time: "reasonable".




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