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Borders are constitution-free zones, didn't you know?

Actually, the First Congress okayed border searches. Given that many of them were authors of the Constitution, it stands to reason that border searches were always intended to be allowed under the Constitution, even if not stated explicitly.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/b...

Did they expect the definition of “border” to get quite so mangled, though?

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

I also suspect they did not anticipate it being both feasible and normal to have one’s entire private writings on one’s person at all times like modern phones permit.

Most of those cases have been related to the 4th, not the 5th right?

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