Amendment4Search



__Amendment 4: Search and Seizure__ 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 propable cause,supported by oath or affirmation,and particularly describing the place to be searched,and the persons or things to be seized.

This document is important because during the colonial time whenever the soldiers would come and seize people and their things they wouldn't ask. If America went through that again that with the type of technology that we have today then there would be a major catastrophe. The colonist from the colonial era taught us that even though the soldiers and the British king treated them like dirt that they still could overcome anybody who stood n their way as long as they worked together. If that were to happen again during this era that America would fight for a cause.
 * __Analysis:__**

__**New Jersey vs. T.L.O.**__ It all started on Wednesday, March 28, 1984, the argument was about a fourteen year old who was accused of smoking in the women's bathroom at school. The principal questioned her at school and searched her purse and found drug paraphanelia and marijuana. She wanted to know if being searched was against the fourth and the fourteenth amendment. The conclusion was no. The search was associated with any other search that would have gone on on the school ground. There was six votes for New Jersey and three votes against New Jersey. This case went all the way to supreme court because of the girl not agreeing with the court on the case against the amendment.


 * __Biblioraphy:__**

http://middle.nettrekker.com/isearch/?ctgry_id=M0&keyword=the%20amendment [|http://www.rightswebquest.wikispaces.com] Creating America: Beginnings through Reconstruction pg.251

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/images/police-search.jpg

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http://hightower2.wikispaces.com/Amendment4Search

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1983/1983_83_712/