Thursday, August 26, 2010

Fourth Amendment

Source: U.S. Constitution 4th Amendment is Dead in America

Article 1, The Legislative Branch, Section 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB_jp3Sm1BY

Constitution Connection:

Article 1, The Legislative Branch, Section 8 "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."


Analysis of the Constitution:

A man was upset and felt a case of trespassing when a health inspector came to his house twice snooping around. The time she came with a police officer ha he approached them explaining how it was a violation of the fourth amendment to come onto his property without his permission or a warrant. The health inspector nor the police officer had neither. The police was trying to explain if he had nothing to hide he shouldn't mind, but that wasn't the point the point was under the law he had the right to tell them they couldn't come on his property. The inspector did anyway and he's going to sue and win. The police didn't even try to stop her.

This demonstrates the fourth amendment and a violation of it in the Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S Constitution. The officer and the inspector knew that he was right about the fact that if they came on his property than it would be trespassing which is against the law. This video shows that people don't care  or think about the fourth amendment because even when the man was saying he was going to sue them they just went into the property and kept walking.

I think that the inspector should have just went to get a warrant  to search his house, but i feel that the man was right about his right as a human according to the constitution. The inspector had no right to trespass in his property without permission or a warrant. The man had every right to sue because of her not having the proper things needed for her to be granted a warrant to search his house. In my opinion the officer wasn't doing his job and the inspector was rude.

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