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4th Amendment Vs Fourth Amendment
Would you like the police to know your every move? Law enforcement agents must obtain a warrant based on probable cause to attach a GPS device to a car and track its movement. The case United States V. Jones, suggested that the Fourth Amendment must continue to protect against government intrusions. Any use of a tracking device without a warrant would be highly risky for law enforcement
All citizens of The United States deserve their privacy, but in those emergency situations where you have to invade someone’s privacy for the greater good of others than that’s acceptable. The Fourth Amendment offers and important safeguard against unjustified government surveillance, all of us are granted that right when we are born in the United States.
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S. Constitution is what we have, as citizens of the United States to protect us form the government. Its what gave us our fundamental rights and privileges as individuals for instance freedom of speech and religion, press and assembly. Judicial review is an example of separation of power in todays governmental system where it can review if a regulation contradicts or violates the existing law that’s why we have separation of powers.
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the people of unreasonable searches and seizures, it gives the right to secure their persons, houses and no warrant shall be issue unless they have a probable cause. Is in our bill of rights, and it can’t be taken away form us no matter what the circumstance is. When the police decided to install a GPS tracking devise on the car of Antoine Jones without a warrant they broke Jones right.
Antoine who was protected by the the fourth amendment had no idea that a tracking devise was install on his car, so his basic right was violated because the police did an unreasonable seizure on his vehicle, any tracking devise install without a warrant would be highly risky for law enforcement because they are breaching society’s rights which are protected by the

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