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    The three amendments that are used to protect the rights of those accused of a crime include, the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment protects the right of people to be secure in their persons, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. (Peak, 2015, p.181). The Fifth Amendment protects the accused against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and life, liberty, and property. Meaning no person will be forced to be a witness against themselves, they cannot

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    The Second Amendment Ever since the beginning of American Revolution in April 1775, Americans have sought to create a nation with no ties to the British monarch and create and more, perfect union. They decided to create a democratic, republic government consisting of voted officials voted by the people, governed by a system of checks and balances with limited powers and the purpose of providing protection and services to its citizens. However, The Founding Fathers believed that should the government

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    The Fourth Amendment Noah Fleck November 30, 2015 My paper is going to be focused on the Fourth Amendment, which sets the baseline for searches and seizures. I will present what the Fourth Amendment is, what the rights of the individual are as stated in the Fourth Amendment, what limitations may be held within the Fourth Amendment, what must be included within the warrant, and more. I decided to write on this topic as I believe that it is important for us as citizens to know what our

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    A man in court randomly yells out the phrase “I plead the fifth,” and now he doesn’t have to talk anymore! When the man said I plead the fifth he refers back to the fifth amendment. The fifth amendment says this, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject

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    When the colonists established the bill of rights in the 18th century, the fourth amendment seemed unambiguous. The government needed to respect the right for people to be “secure in their persons, house, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures and not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” The difference between today and eighteenth century is that many more situations have come up that weren’t around during the eighteenth century. New technologies

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    Fifth Amendment The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) which is followed by the United States Constitution belongs to the part of the Bill of Rights and will protect each and every individual from being compelled to witnesses against themselves in all sorts of criminal cases. "Pleading the Fifth" is a sort of informal term used generally for invoking the right which allows the witnesses to decline the chance of answering the questions which may lead the answers that might incriminate them, and basically

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    All counter-terrorism efforts potentially violate the 4th Amendment because First of all, I think that they violate the 4th amendment science It is proved that they kind of disrespect the privacy of others by making certain agreements with other people to get information from anywhere that people didn’t know that they were getting. Another reason that can prove that they violated the 4th Amendment is that before this program called PRISM came out the government would go and ask for permission to

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    This paper focuses on the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment cases of the Supreme court and the exclusionary rule. The first case was an issue with the Fourth Amendment, Whren v. United States. On June 10, 1993, several plainclothes police officers in unmarked cars were patrolling in a high drug area in Washington D.C.. for illegal drug activity (Hall, 1996). When observing a pathfinder at a stop sign with temporary tags remaining at the stop

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    they decided to make the US Constitution. With the making of the Constitution it created amendments to better the rights of people and create a better society. Since women and people of different colors and races wanted the right to vote, the constitution created the 15th and 19th amendment. According to the legal form institute website last updated on November 2nd of 2009, it stated that the 15th amendment was "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by

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    The 4th amendment, search and seizure causes a lot of problems. Search and Seizure is the rights that police have when they enter in a home. The standard for conducting a warrantless search, probable cause, is the same standard necessary for a warrant to issue. An illegal search or illegal seizure is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights, and any evidence seized must be excluded from trial. Normally police need a search warrant to enter into a home unless they get the consent to enter in the

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