The table of cases provides references to all of the Supreme Court deci-
sions discussed in the text. Anyone wishing to read the actual decisions may
find them by showing the reference to a librarian in a library that contains
the Supreme Court's decisions. The citation 374 U.S.203 ( 1963), for ex.
ample, tells us that the decision was made in 1963, and that the text of the
decision is contained in volume 374 of the United States Reports at page
203.

The glossary is included to provide a ready reference, but readers may wish
to research some of the terms further. Not every term found in the glossary
will be found in each volume of this series.

This volume includes two appendixes. Appendix A contains the complete
text of the Constitution. Appendix B contains a chronological listing of all
the justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

When James Madison wrote the first draft of what would become the
Fourth Amendment, he acknowledged the central place the right to be free
from unreasonable searches and seizures had in the minds of those who
fought and won the American Revolution. Many consider the right to be free
of unreasonable searches and seizures to have been the most difficult right for
the Supreme Court to interpret over the course of the twentieth century. It is
only by reading the Court's actual decisions and understanding the legal and
historical context of those decisions that any citizen can begin to understand
what the law is in this area and why it is what it is. It is to that end that this
volume was written and it is to the education of those citizens that this
volume is dedicated.

Darien A. McWhirter
San Jose, California
August 1994

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