The Fourth Amendment states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses papers, and effects..." this in the minds of the people alludes to the right of privacy. However, society misses the other half of this Amendment, which is, "...against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..." In the case of the Government having moderation over the internet, people use the Fourth Amendment on their side. Yet, the Amendment supports the side of the Government. When the Government moderates the internet, they are doing it for the safety of the nation. They are moderating the internet with a probable cause, which is allowed hence it is stated in the second half of the Fourth Amendment which everyone …show more content…
In 2017 leading into 2018 as well, the term “Net Neutrality†was thrown around by everyone and their mother. Yet, none of the people are actually educated on what it actually means. People are fighting the Government that the internet will not be “free†anymore, when that is not what Net Neutrality means at all. Getting rid of Net Neutrality means that the Government will have control to moderate the internet and allow services like Verizon or AT&T to speed up, slow down, or block anything they want dealing with their own company, which they should be allowed to do anyway since it is their own company. Not only is getting rid of Net Neutrality a great thing, but people have to keep in mind that net Neutrality was created in 2015! Before 2015, the internet was still exactly the same in terms of the Government and what you can and cannot do. It just goes to show that people should become more educated before speaking on a subject they know absolutely nothing about but they want to speak anyway since all people want to do is go against the Government for any reason they
The 4th amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall 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.” In the context of the 4th amendment, a search is considered or happens, “when a governmental employee or agent of the government violates an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy.” (Ryan) An example of a search under the 4th amendment is forms of searches such as stip searches or visual body searches but they have to be supported by a probable cause and be conducted in a reasonable matter. A seizure of an individual under the 4th amendment means or happens , “when the police's conduct would communicate to a reasonable person, taking into account the circumstances surrounding the encounter, that the person is not free to ignore the police presence and leave at his will.”
Shant Sahakian, in the informative and opinionated piece, “Repeal of Net Neutrality is bad for Education, Business, and You,” written in Los Angeles Times, on November 30, 2017, argues that repealing, therefore ending net neutrality would be detrimental and “the end of the internet we have always known and loved”, and that ending net neutrality will be bad for education, business, and anyone who believes that the internet should be free and equal to use by all persons who use it today. Sahakian’s evidence consists of various references and indications to the fact that ending net neutrality will be the end to internet freedom and equality as wells as an end to the fairness and equal opportunity that net neutrality gives us today. Sahakian also
Our founding fathers created the Bill Of Rights which are the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. One of the most important amendments is the Fourth Amendment. It states “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall 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”(p. 11). What are our founding fathers were trying to do is keep our country from a police state, a state in which law enforcement could enter our homes without probable cause. This protection provides the citizens of the
One Constitutional principle that would be threatened by regulation of the government would be popular sovereignty. Democracy was a government founded for and by the people, and those people would have to vote in their respective states to have this law be implemented. This isn’t really a problem, since Congress or the mayor would have to propose a law that would satisfy the people enough for them to pass it. The government should have sufficient involvement in the internet to ascertain security threats, address security threats, eliminate security threats to the American people. We live
The Fourth Amendment protects all citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Fourth Amendment states any form of stalking, any form of eavesdropping, any form of searching and seizing are a violation of the 4th Amendment. This protects everyone of the United States(Oyez). Searching or seizing anything from someone in a private area without a
The 14th Amendment is one of the most influential Amendments in the history of our nation. The amendment defines what it means to be a US citizen and protects certain rights of the people. There are three important “clauses” in the 14th amendment, each of which are still important today. The clauses are; the Citizenship Clause, which gave individuals who were born in the United States, especially African Americans at the time Citizenship, the Due Process Clause, which protects the first amendment rights of the people from being taken away by any government without due process, the third and final clause is the Equal protection clause, this clause states that there may be no discrimination against people by the law. The 14th amendment was important
As illegal drug use have become a nationwide problem, public employers, like fire departments, are testing employees for illegal drug use. Fire departments want to keep a drug free environment but they must be aware of the legal aspects that limit their power to test for illegal drugs. In The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the privacy of individuals against random and unreasonable intrusions by the government. As such, fire departments must only test employees for drug use in compliance with the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.
Together with the other cases being filed with the Supreme Court from Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, Americans could be looking at the first major change to the U.S. Constitution since the 27th Amendment, which Congress passed in 1992 to address salaries for members of Congress. Blogger, Richard Morgan, was quoted as saying, “Even counting from the Twenty-Seventh, for the first time since 1913 (when Congress passed two amendments), it will soon be possible for someone to enter law school having lived his or her entire life under a static Constitution (newrepublic.com, ” This amendment was proposed as part of the Bill of Rights back when America was still a budding nation. It was written and proposed by James Madison, Jr., who has always been one of my favorite historical figures. He was one of the most influential delegates of the 50 in attendance at the 1776 Continental Congress, one of the framers (not signers) of the U.S. Constitution, co-author of the propaganda machine called the Anti-Federalist papers as part of the Democratic-Republican Party (which later developed into the modern day Democratic franchise), and 4th President of the United States (whitehouse.gov,
On December 15, 1791 the amendments were added on to the declaration and are meant to be followed as a part of human rights but are they really being followed. After the continental convention the us constitution was made, but it had a few flaws everyone knew it, but didn't expect it to stay together for as long as it has. Sadly though we are losing our amendment bit by bit, we can see it everyday the bill of rights is being broken with new laws and oppression happening everyday. One of the first amendment is the freedom of religion, speech,and the press as well as the right to petition. Not only have the right of our speech been tampered with so hase religion the whole reason this country exists but today we are almost being told us believing in our faith is taboo as well we have almost completely lost our freedom of speech i can't even post my opinion online without losing fifty percent of my friends.
Whether it is taking our freedom of speech away to some extent; to being able to go through our mail looking for possible harmful things. They are doing it to protect us; not to hurt
The whole point of the Fourth Amendment is not to completely stop the police, because the amendment can be waived if an officer has a warrant, or a person’s consent. The Fourth Amendment states that generally a search or seizure is illegal unless there is a warrant, or special circumstances. Technically stating that a citizen is protected by the Fourth Amendment, until a government employee gets a warrant, and then they can invade a citizen’s privacy. Also people state that the FISA Court’s warrants are constitutional, but the NSA’s surveillance is unconstitutional. Even though people do not like the NSA’s surveillance, the NSA is legal because the FISA Court that the people did not mind makes it legal.
No, but they do it anyway. Based upon these two examples, it should be clear that the Fourth Amendment is being systematically degraded and
"The government should have control over the internet based on a middle ground that can be formed. Censorship can be harmful to the right that we have to equal access of knowledge. We as a people need to teach kids about the internet. The internet can never be a complete utopia free of evil. We can combat it the best we can, and we can learn how to handle it.
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) The amendments were put into place to protect the rights and civil liberties of all American citizens from the federal government. However, prior to the fourteenth amendment, there was no certainty with the constitution. The constitution did not state in a clear enough way who was protected under it and exactly what rights you had as an American Citizen. The 14th amendment was in response to the just passed thirteenth amendment, which ended slavery in all of the southern states.
This article does not explain what Net Neutrality is until three quarters of the way through the article. In order to appeal to the youth this must be explained as the first thing, younglings getting the concept is a key component before they can figure out a way to fight or fix it. Saying that the Net Neutrality issue is complicated is an understatement, but it must be simplified in order for the public to gain traction of interest on this topic. Another issue is the use of sophisticated language with legal terms and other words not easily definable. This hinders interest, as people don’t like pulling out a dictionary at every tenth