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Gagarin1917today at 3:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Correspondence between a person and a business should be considered “papers.”


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twoodfintoday at 4:52 PM

That’s not how it was understood at the time of ratification. Letters and the post office were a thing then, mentioned elsewhere in the Constitution. If the framers of the 4th amendment wanted it to cover them they would have written the amendment differently.

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