Mr.Young
P.3
10/05/15
Bill of Rights Essay
Hook: It’s 1798 and you’re helping construct and write the Bill of Rights, it’s super hot outside and you really just want to go home because you are only on the making of the 4th Amendment right as you get up to leave you get a brilliant idea on what the 4th Amendment should be. Statement: The first amendment reads “The right of the people to be secured in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall be issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly, describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Thesis: The fourth amendment is the most important of all the amendments because it give people the right to privacy and the government and the police. …show more content…
The people of the United States have more freedoms than other countries that come from the Bill of Rights and the most important amendment is the fourth one. The fourth amendment gives us the right to freedom which almost no other country has. “It is a measure of the framers’ fear the a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise the 4th Amendment values that theses values we embodied in the Constitution itself” (Sandra Day O’Connor ). O’Connor is saying that we, the people, have decided that we want the 4th Amendment in the Constitution but some people may have not wanted the 4th Amendment to be made and inserted into the Constitution. She is also saying that the 4th Amendment was placed into the Constitution by a vote so majority ruled that we should have privacy. Majority ruled this to be part of the Bill of Rights and the bill has lasted till this day and will be around for still hundreds of years to come. (6 quotes don’t