The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.