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by zerocrates 1490 days ago
The Fourth Amendment is tricky... it's got that word "unreasonable" you can just drive a truck through.

And all the stuff about particularity of warrants is nice, but it doesn't actually lay out when warrants are required.

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This is why Legalese was invented. They have to be as explicit as possible to avoid any possible interpretation of what was written other than what was actually meant. A legal document with any phrasing that is "subject to interpretation" will eventually be interpreted in a way the origin author did not intend.

"Unreasonable" is a highly subjective term and should not exist in legal documents.