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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

Fourth Amendment

Searches, Seizures and Warrants
As stressed in this work, the colonists were oppressed under a

tyrannical monarch and parliament. They were not secure in their
persons, they had no privacy or expectation of privacy – soldiers in

their homes and unannounced search and seizure without due
process. The Bill of Rights is an interwoven collective of sacred rights

– one right of itself is insufficient to remain and guarantee freedom.
Again, our Founding Fathers and Framers were not without the

realization of learned history. Our Bill of Rights and Constitution
were defined precisely, and particularly when presented with our

Declaration of Independence – they are under attack today.
The Fourth to Eighth Amendments address our justice system –

primarily criminal, but also civil. These are more defined in the
federal codes of criminal and civil procedure, but the rights are

founded here. These amendments collectively find their origins in
the abuses of the crown against the colonists – and also to a lesser

degree, the citizens in England. In addition, our Country was a
growing melting pot, with immigrants from all of Europe, also under

monarchial oppression and tyranny – France would later see their
own revolution, though of a differently rooted philosophy. Even

under England’s Bill of Rights (1689), most of the rights were to
protect members of the parliament and not the citizens, and from

the Magna Carta to their subsequently documented rights, most

were simply ignored. Rights were ignored, suppressed, changed and
revoked. There was nothing sacred about the rights of the
individual, because they were not natural; they were granted by,

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