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It's the Writs Of Assistance that allowed the British to search homes. =)
This was on my History Test!
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The regulation that permitted the English to search colonial homes was?
The Writs of Assistance is what allowed the British to search the colonists' homes. It was similar to a search warrant.
Search warrants that allowed british soldiers to enter homes?
British soldiers were given writs of assistance that allowed them to conduct searches. This angered many colonists who argued the writs violated their rights.
what authorized British officials to search colonists' homes or ships anytime they wished?
The Revenue Act was an act in which authorized British officials to search the colonists' homes or ships anytime they wished. However, it was under the guise of searching for smuggled goods.
Why were colonists angry about british officers using writs of assistance?
because it gave the British a way to search their homes [it was like a search warrant] by the community
What permitted the British officers to enter colonists homes and search for smuggled goods?
Writs of Assistance
What documents authorized british customs officials to search colonist homes without a search warrant?
It's the Writs Of Assistance that allowed the British to search homes. =) This was on my History Test!
What was a general and unrestricted search warrant often used without cause by the British in Colonial days?
What were general search warrants which authorized british officials to shearch colonists homes
Allowed the British to search colonists' homes?
Writs of Assistance were passed to empower British soldiers to search any colonial home they believed harbored smuggled goods. Writs of Assistance enhanced the Townshend Acts. The Writs of Assistance aroused a lot of anger and were challenged in every court in the thirteen colonies.
What basic right under the British bill of rights was taken from the colonists by the Writ of Assistance?
The Writ of Assistance infringed upon the colonists' basic right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, a principle established under the British Bill of Rights. This legal instrument allowed British customs officials to search colonists' homes and businesses without specific warrants or probable cause. As a result, it undermined the colonists' expectations of privacy and property rights, fueling resentment and resistance against British rule.
Warrants permitting the british to search colonial homes for smuggled goods?
In Britain officers employed to search for smuggled goods were known as excisemen.
What were the rights of?
It allowed British soldiers to enter the colonists homes without permission and take anything that seemed like a threat to Briton. (They also sometimes took stuff that they wanted)
Did the declaratory act force colonists to accept British soldiers into their homes?
Actually it was the quartering act that forced the colonials to accept British soldiers in their homes.
