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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > American politics and society > Fourth Amendment > key people in the Fourth Amendment > William Pitt

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William Pitt  

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  • William Pitt the Elder (1708–1778), Earl of Chatham, was a Whig politician and Great Britain's prime minister from 1766 to 1768. He inspired a core principle of the Fourth Amendment: that the home is sacrosanct and must not be vulnerable to arbitrary government invasion. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Pitt, William]

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