The amendment I chose is the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment is “Citizens cannot be forced to subject themselves to seizure and search without a search warrant and probable cause”. The Fourth Amendment was included to the Constitution so that police do not have the power to just look through your things and they can’t take anything if they do not have permission, a warrant, from a judge. You must also show that you have a good reason to be able to get the warrant.
The Founding Fathers of the Constitution wanted to protect the rights of individuals by not giving the government a lot of power. When the United States only had the thirteen colonies British soldiers had the power to go into people’s homes and search them whenever they wanted to. In 1761 a young lawyer named James Otis spoke out against the searches and said, “One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.” After James Otis said this the Fourth Amendment was written so the police, at the time British soldiers, didn’t a lot of power to do whatever they want.
A current court case involving the Fourth Amendment is the one involving Rodriguez vs. the United States. This case happened in 2015. This issue was …show more content…
There was no argument about if the pullover was serious or not. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said,” Absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures.” Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all agreed with Justice Ginsburg. The police officer said that the short delay was caused by the officer that he called for backup to help him with the dog when they released it to search the
The Founding Fathers of the Constitution wanted to protect the rights of individuals by not giving the government a lot of power. When the United States only had the thirteen colonies British soldiers had the power to go into people’s homes and search them whenever they wanted to. In 1761 a young lawyer named James Otis spoke out against the searches and said, “One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.” After James Otis said this the Fourth Amendment was written so the police, at the time British soldiers, didn’t a lot of power to do whatever they want.
A current court case involving the Fourth Amendment is the one involving Rodriguez vs. the United States. This case happened in 2015. This issue was …show more content…
There was no argument about if the pullover was serious or not. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said,” Absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures.” Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all agreed with Justice Ginsburg. The police officer said that the short delay was caused by the officer that he called for backup to help him with the dog when they released it to search the