Throughout history, the growth and progression of societies have shaped the evolutionary thought concerning the foundation of politics and the intention of its branches. The dualistic nature of the government’s objectives and its methods provide for controversy or differing perspectives on its efficacy. The once transparent assessment of appropriate governmental action has become fogged by the contradictory need to infringe upon citizens’ privacy in order to comply with security demands. The balance between liberty and security is a scale that has been fluctuating in proportion for years, garnering heated debates and discussion from both the right and left ends of the political spectrum. The quote, “Those who would give up essential liberty,
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This balance between the two powerful and combatively perceived forces may be achieved when security resembles the protection of the individuals’ natural rights by governmental rulings and regulations, with the assumption that their social contract will be appropriately maintained. The protection of civil rights and liberties may be successfully carried out only through the use of authority much more influential that the power or control of the individual. Therefore, the individual and the government enter into a social contract, an implied pact dictating the sacrifice of minor individual liberties in order to adequately secure the freedoms fundamental for the “Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness” of the individual. Mr. Wendell J. Brown, author of “What Liberty Is,” an article in the American Bar Association Journal that examines the origins of liberty both objectively and qualitatively, reiterates this mutual understanding between the government and the governed in writing, “In practice the ideal of liberty must always have this dual aspect of independence and responsibility. To attain independence there is always the responsibility to fight for it and to know what we are fighting …show more content…
In the midst of digital technology and surging global terrorism, security has become much more forceful that it has ever been before. Though privacy is not explicitly expressed in the Constitution, the 4th Amendment, which guarantees security of one’s persons and papers as well as security from unlawful search and seizures, came into controversy post September 11, 2001. The controversy has exacerbated, however, in recent years after the discovery of secretive searches performed by government agencies. The airport, for example, is infringement personified. Airport security has the power to check one’s persons, property, and papers in order for one to obtain permission onto the plane, making this a prime example of the sacrifice of privacy for protection. But just because people tolerate these security measures, it does not mean they are happy about it. To symbolize this discontent, one very eccentric designer has created a line of underwear that has the transcript of the 4th Amendment sewn in metallic thread, so it shows on the backscatter X-ray. A member of the Arizona Leathernecks Motorcycle Club, a group consisting of four ex-marines, expounds on the dissatisfaction by declaring, “We are a free society… I didn’t go spend two years in the Middle East, away from my family, away from my friends, spend Christmases and everything else
This balance between the two powerful and combatively perceived forces may be achieved when security resembles the protection of the individuals’ natural rights by governmental rulings and regulations, with the assumption that their social contract will be appropriately maintained. The protection of civil rights and liberties may be successfully carried out only through the use of authority much more influential that the power or control of the individual. Therefore, the individual and the government enter into a social contract, an implied pact dictating the sacrifice of minor individual liberties in order to adequately secure the freedoms fundamental for the “Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness” of the individual. Mr. Wendell J. Brown, author of “What Liberty Is,” an article in the American Bar Association Journal that examines the origins of liberty both objectively and qualitatively, reiterates this mutual understanding between the government and the governed in writing, “In practice the ideal of liberty must always have this dual aspect of independence and responsibility. To attain independence there is always the responsibility to fight for it and to know what we are fighting …show more content…
In the midst of digital technology and surging global terrorism, security has become much more forceful that it has ever been before. Though privacy is not explicitly expressed in the Constitution, the 4th Amendment, which guarantees security of one’s persons and papers as well as security from unlawful search and seizures, came into controversy post September 11, 2001. The controversy has exacerbated, however, in recent years after the discovery of secretive searches performed by government agencies. The airport, for example, is infringement personified. Airport security has the power to check one’s persons, property, and papers in order for one to obtain permission onto the plane, making this a prime example of the sacrifice of privacy for protection. But just because people tolerate these security measures, it does not mean they are happy about it. To symbolize this discontent, one very eccentric designer has created a line of underwear that has the transcript of the 4th Amendment sewn in metallic thread, so it shows on the backscatter X-ray. A member of the Arizona Leathernecks Motorcycle Club, a group consisting of four ex-marines, expounds on the dissatisfaction by declaring, “We are a free society… I didn’t go spend two years in the Middle East, away from my family, away from my friends, spend Christmases and everything else