This goes back farther than you are likely asking for, but general warrants were called out in the U.S. bill of rights and were alluded to in the declaration of

This goes back farther than you are likely asking for, but general warrants were called out in the U.S. bill of rights and were alluded to in the declaration of independence because the British crown had been using them to investigate smugglers and tax dodgers, especially in the northeastern American colonies.