Note 340 — Chapter IV · Limitations on the Postal Power

For an historical consideration of this amendment, see Boyd v. U. S., 116 U. S. 616 (1886). See also May, Constitutional History of England, vol. ii, p. 245 ff.; Cooley’s Blackstone, Book iv, p. 290 ff.; Annals of 1st Congress, vol. i, pp. 434, 754, and Story, Commentaries, vol. iii, p. 748. Discussions of the general scope of the provision are to be found in 2 Willoughby on the Constitution, 828; Cooley, Constitutional Limitations (7th ed.), p. 429, and Bruce, “Arbitrary Searches and Seizures as Applied to Modern Industry.” Green Bag, vol. xviii, p. 273.