https://www.thenewamericancom/usnews/constitution/item/20959-john-wilkes-45-and-the-fourth-amendment

https://archive.is/N1aqT

Thursday, 28 May 2015

John Wilkes, "45," and the Fourth Amendment

Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

TL:DR

‘’‘John Wilkes''’ (not John Wilkes Booth) member of English parliament

The North Briton, weekly news magazine in England

1763 Wilkes published the North Briton ‘’‘Number 45‘’‘

In it he criticized certain remarks delivered by the King in his address to Parliament.

Easter Sunday 1763 John Wilkes found himself arrested and he found himself subject to an invasive search.

‘’‘The number “45” in his North Briton became a symbol for liberty on both sides of the Atlantic.’ As Senator Lee rightly relates: "People would celebrate by ordering 45 drinks for their 45 closest friends. People would recognize this symbol by writing the number 45 on the walls of taverns and saloons. ‘’‘The number 45 came to represent the triumph of the common citizen against the all-powerful force of an overbearing national government.'"

The official website of colonial Williamsburg adds to the account of Wilkes’s fame and the association of “45” with the struggle to restore individual liberty:

Energized by Wilkes's victory, the others scooped up by the general warrant sued the government — an unprecedented action — and won, precipitating what scholar Arthur Cash calls "a momentous shift in the locus of power in government" from the privileged to the masses. Soon cries of "Wilkes and Liberty!" were heard across London, and the author of No. 45 embodied a movement of revolt against the government. The number 45 became a symbol of radical politics: one liberty-loving parson delivered a sermon on the forty-fifth verse of Psalm 119, "I will walk in Liberty, for I keep thy precepts.”

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https://freebeaconcom/culture/that-devil-wilkes/

http://archive.is/NGFTr

That Devil Wilkes’

Book Excerpt: Sen. Mike Lee’s ‘Our Lost Constitution’

Mike Lee / Penguin Random House LLC

BY: Senator Mike Lee

April 26, 2015 5:00 am

At the time of our nation’s founding, few men were more admired than the English dissident whom King George III called "that devil Wilkes." A sometime member of Parliament and a sometime political prisoner, John Wilkes argued that the King’s subjects had rights, and the King’s powers had limits. He spoke out against the king’s tyrannical tendencies before there was a Stamp Act, a Boston Tea Party, or a Declaration of Independence. In colonial America, Wilkes’s name was synonymous with liberty. The story of how his liberty was won inspired one of the most important parts of our Constitution—the Fourth Amendment.

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When James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights and introduced it in the First Congress, no case was more famous in America than John Wilkes’s trespass suit against Lord Halifax and his messengers. Its text was as clear as the lessons from John Wilkes’s story: broad warrants purporting to give government agents discretion to rummage through the homes and private papers of law-abiding Americans—i.e., general warrants—are incompatible with liberty. And under the Fourth Amendment, they are unconstitutional.

Reprinted from Our Lost Constitution by Senator Mike Lee with permission of Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright (c) Mike Lee, 2015.

UVic’s Ocean Networks Canada heads to China for international partnerships

By Chorong Kim

September 19, 2013

https://archive.is/nFFyi

http://www.martlet.ca/uvics-ocean-networks-canada-heads-to-china-for-international-partnerships/

Ocean Networks Canada (previously called the ONC Centre for Enterprise and Engagement) is a world-leading national research facility, based at the University of Victoria, that specializes in deep-sea observation programs on the West Coast. Ocean Networks Canada has been developing advanced ocean technologies using VENUS, a coastal observatory located in the Salish Sea, and NEPTUNE, the world’s first regional ocean observatory with an extensive optic cable network lining the deep ocean bottom. The instruments from both of these programs have provided continuous real-time data from the deep coastal seafloor, obtained by a network of more than 800 kilometres of electro-optic cable. This data is made available on the Internet for all those who wish to participate in analyzing it, and the visual data has often been used by UVic biology laboratories as an educational resource.

With funding from the government of British Columbia, UVic’s Ocean Networks Canada is now visiting China on a 12-day trade mission to monitor the ocean environment of the Pacific Ocean. Ocean Networks Canada’s mission started and was exhibited from Sept. 2–4 at Oceanology International China 2013, which is a conference and trade show for industry, academic community and government representatives worldwide to share their knowledge concerning marine technology. China hosted this year’s events, due to its increasing funding toward research projects on its coastline.

During the Oceanology International event, the Ocean Networks Canada Innovation Centre demonstrated British Columbia’s leading technology in marine science, along with other organizations from the province, such as Seamor Marine from Nanaimo, the Canadian Science Submersible Facility from Sidney, Rockland Scientific and ASL Environmental Sciences, International Submarine Engineering in Port Coquitlam, and ThinkSensor Research in West Vancouver. Following the exhibition, Ocean Networks Canada scientists have planned to head to all major Chinese cities that have shown great interest in ocean science and its technology.

This is not the first connection between Ocean Networks Canada and Chinese scientists. The team at Ocean Networks Canada were paid a visit by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on July 9, as part of their mission to the U.S. and Canadian West Coast. Ocean Networks Canada’s current technology, research ideas and data processing scheme were shown to guests, while the Chinese scientists presented their own plans for cabled ocean observatories in China. They will be installing a preliminary four-kilometre cable at Hainan Island’s coastal city Sanya, which will be followed by networking a 500 kilometre cable that starts from the South China Sea.

What Ocean Networks Canada expects to gain from this partnership is the opportunity to create efficient technology in cooperation with China for the long-term monitoring of the variable conditions of the deep sea.