Likewise, the word search can have different meanings. In 1791, when the Fourth Amendment was ratified, a search likely referred to men in uniform banging down front doors and rifling through drawers and closets without a warrant. But did the Constitution’s framers really consider whether taking thermal images of a person’s home to find marijuana growing inside constituted a search?4 What about tracking a Jeep with a GPS device during a drug investigation?5 Of course not.
