{"id":2253,"date":"2010-07-15T01:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2010-07-15T01:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:28:31","slug":"constitutional-amendments-article-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/constitutional-amendments-article-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Amendments: Article IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have been covering the US Constitution line by line.  When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies.  We have finished the main body of the Constitution.  Now we continue the Amendments.  You can find the last article on the main body of the Constitution<\/font> here<\/a>. It has links to all the others.  The text comes from<\/font> The US Constitution<\/a>.  Previous articles in the Amendment series:<\/font><\/p>\n

Article I<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles II and III<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n

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Article [IV]<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The meaning of this Amendment is clear, and forms part of the basis of our right to privacy.<\/font><\/p>\n

Sadly this Amendment had also been gutted.  If police officers falsely claim that they have probable cause, they search without a warrant.  For example, when Nixon was President, I was driving in New Mexico toward Las Cruces from El Paso, TX.  It was a business trip and my van contained carpet samples and carpet handling equipment.  A highway patrol unit pulled me over.  They asked if I had been in Mexico.  I told them I had not.  The asked if I was smuggling drugs.  I said No.  They asked for permission to search my van.  I said no.  One officer turned to the other: \u201cIs that marijuana I smell?\u201d  \u201cIt smells like it to me!\u201d said the other in mock exaggeration.  They cuffed me, put me in the back of their car and proceeded to search the van.  They found nothing.  I had no pot.  They let me out, removed the cuffs, and left me with my completely unloaded van on the highway, without so much as an apology.<\/font><\/p>\n

Such illegal searches happen in this country every day, because the right-wing Supreme Court keeps upholding such unconstitutional searches as legal, when they clearly are not.<\/font><\/p>\n

But my experience is nothing compared to the massive invasion of our privacy by GW Bush and his illegal wiretapping on telephone conversations, email, and other Internet traffic of virtually all Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n

We need to restore this essential part of our civil rights.  Republicans want to further limit this right.<\/font><\/p>\n

I shall try to put up a new article in this series almost every day.  It will take some time to cover it all, but when we\u2019re done, we shall be immune to the lies with which Republicans seek to undermine our freedoms.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been covering the US Constitution line by line.  When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies.  We have finished the main body of the Constitution.  Now we continue the Amendments.  You can find the last article on the main body of the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}