Fourth Amendment Stipulates That No Term Paper

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The government was triggered for the sake of the people. People had honor and dignity. each person was important, and the privacy and dignity of each had to be respected.

Given the ambitions of man and man's love for power, it is all too easy for man to rise to positions of power and dominate others. The Fourth Amendment is important in that it protects the honor and asserts the significance of even the 'least' individual in the country. In this way, the Fourth Amendment prevents the situation of a Fuhrer or Third Reich happening on this soil since certain safeguards are put into place that have to be kept at all costs.

Further indications of the importance of this Amendment can also be seen from the instance when Jentick, an Earl of Camden, was indicted for attacking both government polices and the monarch. His private papers were ruffled and searched and Entick lodged a complaint saying that all papers, not just probably sseditious ones, had been seized. Entick won the case and established the british precedent of ensuring that the executive was limited in intruding on British property by common law. This law gave the citizen some modicum of privacy and security knowing that he could appeal to certain rights in order to protect his dignity.

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Paradoxically, until the 1760s, there was in Colonial America, according to William Cuddihy (1990), a "colonial epidemic of general searches" and, in America of then, "man's house was even less of a legal castle in America than in England" as the authorities possessed almost unlimited power.

It was time to check that power for if that power were not checked, America would have become but another European state where a tyrannical government would have been evidenced only, in time, to undergo one revolution after another by a people who would have sought to topple that tyranny. Given that situation, America would have little chance of succeeding the way it did.

Only by granting its people respect and stability and by giving the commoner the same rights as the President could America succeed in elevating the pride and confidence of its citizens and getting them to become the nation of activists and a people, generally, intent on justice.

Source

W. Cuddihy, the Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning (1990) (Ph.D. Dissertation at Claremont Graduate School)

Lasson, Nelson B. (1937). The History and Development of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.….....

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