Part B (continued)

How do the 4th and 6th amendments become distorted in our Country?


The 4th amendment states that people of the United States have the right to their privacy. They may not be searched or investigated unless the government has a warrant with a sufficient reason as to why they are searching this person and only a select few places may be checked. The 6th amendment states that should there be a criminal convicted who does not have a lawyer; one will be provided for them. This amendment is often contradicted because of the hunger for power. These amendments distort our society because they show us that the government promises us that we will have privacy and we can do what we please, but in actuality when we enter the subway station or an airport, we are randomly checked because the government is “trying to protect the country.” Police officers often discriminate who they check based on gender or race and possibly religion which goes against the 5th amendment. In terms of the 6th amendment, when criminals (or innocent people) are convicted of a crime and cannot supply their own lawyer, they are provided one. But if the court and police find the convicted guilty no matter what, they can provide the convicted a lawyer who is unhelpful.


Although the Bill of Rights states that we have privacy and will be helped in a case where a person cannot help themselves, the government takes over these amendments and gives themselves power. They create it so that they control people’s fate in terms of trials and such by giving a person a bad lawyer and they control who and what is private in the lives of Americans and cover it up with the idea that they have to “protect the people from enemies.”

How does the 4th amendment conflict with Section 4 Article 4 of the Constitution?

The 4th amendment gives people the right to their privacy; they may not be searched without just cause. Section 4 Article 4 of the constitution states that the government ensures the safety of the people of the United States from enemies. These 2 rules conflict with each other because it is not defined what is just cause to search a person. People are randomly searched in the U.S. all the time based on what they look like. The Government uses this excuse that they want to protect its people so that they have a “just cause” for searching whomever they please.

Being able to randomly search through people’s belongings gives police and in turn the Government a sense of power because they write amendments and parts of the constitution that make people feel safe and free. They’re happy because they can have privacy and be protected by a strong government, but they don’t realize that they are stuck under a government which thirsts for power and obtains it by raiding peoples belongings for no just reason.