Slate: Jurisprudence: Battle of Hudson Heights

The Hudson Highlands are an important, once strategic part of American history. A Dutch American patriot Bernard Romans was asked to build the fortifications on Constitution Island. From there also stretched a "Great Chain" to the "west point", where the military established an academy in 1803. The chain, one of "many" (3 or 4 that I know of) were to stop the British forces from a "divide and conquer" of the colonies from the north and from the south along the Hudson River. Later, the West Point Foundry, across the Hudson River from the military academy, had one of the first Federal cannon consignments, and in the Civil War, in 1861, was patented the rifled Parrott gun which was use to bombard Charleston, South Carolina with incendiaries before itself exploding. It had been named the "Swamp Angel" by one of its crew, which is where it was and out of range, and written about in a poem by Herman Melville. An EPA remediation was conducted there to remove the cadmium contaminating Foundry Cove and Constitution Marsh, from the production of batteries for NIKE rockets, which I was involved in the archeology of which brings me to this Supreme Court decision. What's next? The Queens Warrant? In Canada, it is (or was) a standing warrant that allows officers on suspicion to search any boat, dwelling or person if there is thought to be any drugs involved without specifically naming the searched. It seems that that "anonymity", perhaps, was at the bottom of the Fourth Amendment, which without the Bill of Rights, New York State, NYC once the first Federal capital (the current Capitol dome was made there in the Bronx under Lincoln) would not have signed the Constitution, which allows for a jury trial for sums over $20 in it. http://fray.slate.com/?id=3936&m=17679523