It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
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.
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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