USA PATRIOT Act

The USA PATRIOT ACT stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (Deflem, McDonough, 2015). It makes a person wonder if the name came first, or if the desire to have something seem super patriotic was enough to create a title to fit with those letters. “The American public is skeptical of the Patriot Act. More than 180 governments have urged a rollback of its expansive…

The USA Patriot Act is short for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (Patriot Act 2011). After September eleventh 's attack, The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill to President George W. Bush, which he signed into law on October 26, 2001 in hopes of preventing another attack on American soil. The act was based on a Department of Justice proposal that was modified by the Congress before it was enacted into…

tragedies , the government implemented new laws and changed the way of doing things to ensure national security . One of these laws is the USA PATRIOT Act, which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, allowing the government power to violate many of our amendment rights. The USA PATRIOT Act violates our Fourth Amendment rights by giving the government the power to search and seize Americans and their property…

events that are considered emergencies, such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Consequently, of these various enactments, the following has been found to be hurtful to American society: Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This is due to the controversy…

life, such as checking phone calls or acquiring personal data. With the rise of terrorism, the USA has increased its security surveillance on Americans. Due to devastating terrorist acts, such as September 11, the government has made its private monitorization laws much more strict, evidently in the creation of the USA Patriot Act. Horrified by the terrorist attack, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act hastily in October 26, 2001. Initially, the bill was intended to increase national security…

In this paper, I will be talking about the act of congress called the Patriot Act which is officially called USA PATRIOT (an abbreviation of “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”). The act was a reaction to the September 11 terrorist attacks perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, as well as the anthrax attacks that happened soon after. The main concern of the act was to increase security, and in that…

9/11, the US government was afraid an attack would happen again. So in a panic, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed in the Senate on October 25 2001, just 45 days after the attack with a vote of 98:1. The USA PATRIOT Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. The purpose behind its name was that it deemed anyone who violated the PATRIOT Act unpatriotic or a traitor to the United States. Its intent was to give the…

The 2001 Patriot Act has been apart of everyday life for Americans, whether in the form of TSA at an airport or the NSA, and many find this act to be unconstitutional. Article I. What the Patriot act is. The Patriot act was a law signed in by congress after the September 11th terrorist attacks. The main purpose of the act is to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack like 9/11. How the Patriot act goes about preventing that is another question. The act is found to be unconstitutional to…

This was seen in the creation of the PATRIOT Act. This was a law that encroached on the rights of the American people and contributed to the deterioration of the normative ideals the United States was founded on. Having been, in essence, revised by the Freedom Act signed into law on June 2, 2015,…

from the attack. From that led the USA Patriot Act was passed on October 26,2001 to keep everyone safe and ease the fear that the american people had from the attack. As a result of 9/11, there has been many improvements of surveillance for the purpose of helping civilians safe. There are many improvements of surveillance to keep civilians safe. As stated the USA Patriot Act passed on October 6, 2001 was to ease the fear for american people. The USA PAtriot Act allowed federal government…