Bill+of+Rights+Signmi19

=The 4 th Amendment= ==//"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." //==

Description
The official must have a reason to search, they can not just search you because they have nothing better to do or believe you are involved in something. This amendment states that no government official can search you, or any of your personal property including all of you belongings without a warrant f rom a federal judge.

Historical Applications
There has been cases brought to the courts because people don't think that Congress or anyone with higher power can track them by what they post, check in, or anything else to do with social net working but they can. They can track you from your Twitter tweets, Facebook check ins, and any other net working that people may use. In 2012 there was a case, United States v. Jones.__//"Government officials may use public information to justify an arrest or conviction, and without Fourth Amendment protection, users may be subject to criminal liability based on personal photographs, location check-ins, or status updates posted on social networking// websites."__ This statement is from the United States v. Jones case, meaning anything you do online can be tracked and you are not protected by the 4th amendment, (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/JLPP/upload/Schmidt-final.pdf). In 1968 there was a case Terry v. Ohio of course Ohio over ruled anything that The defendant had to say about breaking the rules of the 4th amendment and the defendants were convicted for having counseled weapons. (// Terry v. Ohio // [392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1968, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968)]). But because the officer had suspicion and because he thought his life was in danger he could pat the suspects down BUT only on the top layer. There are many cases that people fight against for there 4th amendment being stolen from them but the courts will always find a way around it.

Today's Application
In our new generations we have lost most of the meaning of the 4th amendment, our American borders have become corrupt shall we say, for anyone that is not a resident of America when they land here. They are unprotected from the 4th amendment until Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says they are in the U.S, no one is actually in the U.S until they say you are. In the past couple years we have had cases where again our generation likes their technology, (who doesn't though.) Well if they all knew all the facts a lot more people would watch what they say and do with those cell phones/smart phones. Two cases in the past 6, 7 years and probably a lot more, but, in these cases people were caught and arrested because they had done something wrong so the authorities checked their phones and found some things that were not capable of proving innocence. That got them into deeper trouble. Everyone remembers the whole huge problem with Edward Snowden right? Edward seemed to think, or know that the government was denying people of the 4th amendment and listening in, looking through everything personal. //__"All of your private communications, all of your transactions, all of your associations, who you talk to, who you love, what you buy, what you read, all of these things can be seized and then held by the government and then searched later for any reason, hardly without any justification, without any reason, without any real oversight, without any real accountability for those who do__ __wrong."__// This is what Snowden told NBC's Brian Williams.