Roger Roots, Are Cops Constitutional? � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Roger Roots, Are Cops Constitutional?

� ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

"Roger Roots, Are Cops Constitutional?

August 4, 2011 Gunny G

Prior to the 1850s, rugged individualism and self-reliance were the touchstones of American law, culture, and industry. Although a puritan cultural and legal ethic pervaded their society, Americans had great toleration for victimless misconduct.44 Traffic disputes were resolved through personal negotiation and common law tort principles, rather than driver licenses and armed police patrol.45 Agents of the state did not exist for the protection of the individual citizen. The night watch of early American cities concerned itself primarily with the danger of fire, and watchmen were often afraid to enter some of the most notorious neighborhoods of cities like Boston.46

At the time of Tocqueville‘s observations (in the 1830s), “the means available to the authorities for the discovery of crimes and arrest of criminals [were] few,”47 yet Tocqueville doubted “whether in any other country crime so seldom escapes punishment.”48 Citizens handled most crimes informally, forming committees to catch criminals and hand them over to"..............................

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