"As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law."

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That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

— George Mason