By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--April 7, 2024

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This third in my “Then and Now” series will address the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution. We know that the ratification of the original Constitution was done with a gentlemen’s agreement that limitations would be developed to define citizen’s right and government limitations, thus the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

In America today Joe Biden and his Marxist minions whine about the limitation put on government by the Constitution. EXACTLY! The Founding Fathers had lived under a system where there were no such thing as protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The government could do whatever it damn well pleased.

The Founding Fathers developed the 4th Amendment to require the government to have a well-defined reason for any search. It required the........

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