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Wow, how was this ever legal to begin with?

• jff 11y ago
  The authoritarians that run NYC are tremendously contemptuous of the common man. See: anything Bloomberg has ever done.
  • TallGuyShort 11y ago
    Stop and frisk something something...
• zyxley 11y ago
  It wasn't. The people doing it just pretended it was.
• Falkon1313 11y ago
  It was legal because in the king's eyes, the colonists weren't really citizens, they were just subjects, and therefore subject to search and seizure on a whim. That was one of the reasons we had a revolution. There was also a brief period between 1789-1791 where it wasn't explicitly clear that it was illegal, but that was resolved by amending the constitution.