President Bush Implements A Wave Of Legislation Help...

President Bush implements a wave of legislation to help protect the citizens of the United States. An important piece of law that was passed was an act called the Patriot Act. This Act’s is supposed to help the government find terrorists and ensuring that another attack like the September 11th attacks doesn’t happen again. However there are a number of constitutional questions that arise with regards to the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act grants the government more power than it had before the attacks of 9-11. It takes into consideration the privileges of residents to be set aside when the legislature feels that an individual may be partnered with terrorist exercises. I start by talking about the essential substance of the Patriot Act and†¦show more content†¦This statement implies that there are certain rights out there that are not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has used this amendment by saying that the right to privacy fits in here. Finally the 3 Fourteenth Amendment which gives notion that every citizen has the right to due process. Also, the Fourteenth Amendment states, â€Å"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Constitution of the U.S). The right to privacy is implied in the Constitution in a number of different amendments. That’s why it is so important for Congress to define terrorism in the context of the Patriot Act because if it doesn’t define it, the term is open up to a number of different definitions. Patriot Act and the Constitution The Patriot Act poses many threats to the civil liberties of individuals. There are a number of sections in the Patriot Act that seem to go against the general notion of privacy that is implied in the Constitution. In Title II of the Patriot Act, Section 201 titled, Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, the government acts against the Constitution. By looking at this section from a constitutional standpoint, there are many issues that are brought up just by this short sentence. First, terrorism isn’t really defined. This