The Importance Of Spyin Spying: The Right To Privacy

Americans are not entitled to privacy. The topic of privacy has been a widely discussed topic for centuries in the United States. The one that argues that government surveillance is unconstitutional has not fully read and analyzed the document in its entirety. The word privacy is not written once throughout the entire constitution. America is known as the “free world” and without the government’s use of its resources to protect the free world, the average American will no longer be able to sing the lyrics “and the land of the free…” in the national anthem. To have freedom one must have power. Surveillance gives the government power to protect the country from foreign and domestic attacks. Government surveillance is a constitutional strategy that is necessary to protect the citizens of America. …show more content…
America’s founding fathers argued the natural rights that every human being were entitled to at birth. Both John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, the founders of the “liberal” political philosophy, believed that humans are held to follow a moral law. Hobbes believed that people acted with the incentive of doing as he or she wishes. Hobbes believed that people were acting based off of self-interest and the desire to fend for themselves; however, individuals create governments to offset this mindset (Natural Rights Tradition, Steve Forde). With creating the United States government, the founders placed it with one major responsibility: protect the citizens of the United States at all cost. Nature causes competition and the government must structure this to prevent mass chaos and destruction. The government that Americans created must use its resources to truly protect the country in every way, shape, or