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The Four Amendments And The Aspects Of The Fourth Amendment

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All amendments keep our states together, but there is one amendment that is especially important. Amendment four is about giving you the right to be safe in your home and your property. There shouldn’t be any unreasonable searches or seizures. The fourth amendment is better than all the other amendments because it gives you protection in your house, no warrants should be issued, and proving is better than inferring. The fourth amendment gives you the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches or seizures.” (The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. constitution) “The Fourth Amendment is the constitutional sentry whenever someone's privacy is diminished by a governmental search or seizure…, ...Court declares, means an actual expectation of privacy that society is prepared to recognize as "reasonable." In defining that phrase, the reasonableness clause of the Fourth Amendment has spawned a vast amount of litigation. Representative Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts said that he "presumed there was a mistake in the wording of this clause; it ought to be ‘the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable seizures and searches. Thus, the Searches and Seizures Clause can be thought of as an independent prohibition on the acts of governmental agents.” (The Heritage Guide to The Constitution) The fourth amendment is better than all the other amendments because you have protection

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