Thomas K. Clancy is a nationally recognized expert on the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) and on Cyber Crime and is author of two law books:  Cyber Crime and Digital Evidence (4th ed. 2023) and The Fourth Amendment: Its History and Interpretation (3d ed. 2017).  He has been called the leading Fourth Amendment historian.  With this book, he expands his historical perspective to other aspects of the founding era and to the evolution of the concept of freedom, highlighted repeatedly on our national holiday.  Clancy is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Mississippi School of Law and graduated from Vermont Law School and the University of Notre Dame.  He now lives on Cape Cod.