OK, Santa, let me make it easy for you this year. Have the elves replicate it, or just buy it and pop it in your sleigh.
For the civil libertarian who has everything [else], here’s news to warm the overactive constitutional cockles of your heart. Some enterprising upstart with a copy of the tattered old document in his/her closet is marketing underwear with the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution emblazoned on it…in metallic ink. Why metallic ink? Because the new body scanners will pick it up and show it to the TSA employees viewing those new intrusive scans.
Beware though. Such obsessive devotion to your Constitutional rights may get you profiled as a radical and potential terrorist pulled aside to be lovingly caressed in a full body pat down.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” U. S. Constitution, Amendment IV.
See the full line of Fourth Amendment undies here.
Contributor, aka tidbits. Retired attorney in complex litigation, death penalty defense and constitutional law. Former Nat’l Board Chair: Alzheimer’s Association. Served on multiple political campaigns, including two for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR). Contributing author to three legal books and multiple legal publications.