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What type of police action was banned by the 4th amendment?
The 4th Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by law enforcement, which means that police cannot conduct searches or take property from individuals without a warrant or probable cause. This includes entering homes without permission or conducting searches without a valid reason.
What abuse inspired the inclusion in the Bill of Rights of the Fourth Amendment rule against unreasonable searches and seizures?
Police would often search homes without warrant or cause, and at times plant evidence, to get a conviction.
What does the third amendment protect us from?
The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from quartering soldiers in civilain homes without the civilian's permission.It like the right to privacy it protected against quartering of troops in your homes and unreasonable searches
To search your homes the government must have one of these?
Warrant
What is the aim of the 4th amendment?
The 4th Amendment was a response to the British government tactics prior to the Revolution. There was a general idea that homes in Britain were "a man's castle"- but not so with homes in the Colonies, which were specifically exempt from that concept. Officials would often get "general warrants" to search any homes at any time for any reason. It especially bothered businessmen, who would be harassed by tax officials. The 4th Amendment was intended to codify that the government couldn't just search your home and your "stuff" without a good reason. Government officials are supposed to go to a judge and convince him to issue a warrant, which is a legal document specifying what they are allowed to search.
What was a general and unrestricted search warrant often used without cause by the British in Colonial days?
What were general search warrants which authorized british officials to shearch colonists homes
When officers of the crown searched colonial homes they had a special search warrant called?
Writ of Assistance
What documents authorized british customs officials to search colonist homes without a search warrant?
It's the Writs Of Assistance that allowed the British to search homes. =) This was on my History Test!
What is a legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled?
A Search Warrant.
When was Writers Without Homes created?
Writers Without Homes was created on 2002-06-10.
How did the colonist react to the writs of assistance?
The colonists objected the writs of assistance because it allowed officials to get warrants to break into the work places of merchants. Often merchant's workplaces where their homes, and their homes would be destroyed by the officers. They were searching for smuggled goods like sugar or cotton. The officers didn't need to state what they were searching for or where they where searching, but only that they the merchant was suspicious, and they could get a warrant. Regrettably, we see much the same thing today, with the AWFUL and unconstitutional "warrantless searches" in recent wars: VERY WORRISOME.
A legal document that enables officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled is called what?
A Search Warrant.
