What amendments does the partiot act violate?
Interesting isn’t it when people choose not to answer the question you ask? There are going to be posters who tell you it doesn’t violate the Constitution…but that’s not going to help you with your counter argument at school. According to the ACLU, it violates the first, fourth and fifth. This is from their website: Section 215 of the Patriot Act violates the Constitution in several ways. It: ** Violates the Fourth Amendment, which says the government cannot conduct a search without obtaining a warrant and showing probable cause to believe that the person has committed or will commit a crime. ** Violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech by prohibiting the recipients of search orders from telling others about those orders, even where there is no real need for secrecy. ** Violates the First Amendment by effectively authorizing the FBI to launch investigations of American citizens in part for exercising their freedom of speech. ** Violates the Fourth Amendmentby failing to