[inquest]

Yes, you're right. It protects against judicial and executive action - the judicial from issuing warrants for the wrong reason, and the executive from arbitrarily searching without warrants at all, or at least without probable cause, in cases where there's no time to consult a judge.

But my point is that when the executive branch is carrying out acts of legislation - such as tax inspection - it may not violate the "unreasonable search" standard, as the founders intended it to mean.

[Dukie]

Good morning inquest.

As we saw in the questions surrounding the matter of trunk searches during traffic stops, the issue of reasonable versus unreasonable becomes a matter for the judiciary. We have to be vigilant in the protection of rights.