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The Miranda Rights
The Miranda rights are deeper than words recited by police officers or a speech used in crime shows like Law and order to make it more realistic. They are a measure taken by the ever evolving american judicial system to protect its citizens. Paramount to any good judicial system is practice, routine and uniformity. This measure just aids in that pursuit of protecting individual freedoms and strengthening not only the judicial system itself but the people it was created to protect. The Miranda right was the first of many procedures added to the law enforcement methodology during the Due process revolution. The Due process revolution was centered around the fourth amendment that insured
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
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In the attempt to further protect these liberties the Warren Court upheld and the strengthened the Fourth amendment. The Miranda rights were an absolutely necessary evil. It help our nation’s government to do its job, which is to protect the people that inhabit these United States from falling prey due to the fact that they are oblivious to the law. But as seen in the certain cases (e.g Miranda v. Arizona) it is a necessary evil. Without the Miranda rights, America would have a hunting culture. Cops would become hunters rather than investigators. Interrogations would become a way for the hunter to capture and attack its unwilling prey. Though, The Miranda Rights allowed some people like Ernesto Miranda conviction to be overturned, it is still very important that law enforcement make the necessary effort in assuring that Fourth amendment is secured and protected to create a just and fair system where the constitution is not just a “form of words” but actual law that applies to …show more content…
It is a protection of individual freedom against demonstrative practices of police. Though, it may be a thought of a clutch for criminals to walk off serving time on technicality it is not. It is far more than that. It is the preservation of American civil liberties and that alway will stand the test of

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