a). You are to review the US Constitution and choose one of the Amendments. Provide the number, what the essence of it is (please do NOT re-write the whole Amendment - only what is necessary), what it means, and what are your views on it? The Fourth Amendment prohibits form any official personnel to go through personal belongs without a probable cause. It prohibits the search and seizure procedure which is used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime. A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society considers reasonable is infringed by a governmental employee or by an agent of the government. Private individuals who are not acting in either capacity are exempt from the Fourth Amendment prohibitions. A seizure refers to the interference with an individual's possessory interest in property. To meet the definition of an unreasonable seizure, the property's owner must have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the items seized. A person is seized when law enforcement personnel use physical force to restrain the person if a reasonable person in the same or a similar situation would not feel free to leave the situation. The previous owner of abandoned property cannot allege an unreasonable seizure of that abandoned property. Abandoned property is property left behind by its owner in a manner in which the owner abandons the possessory interest in the property and no longer retains a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to the search. It also sets requirements for a search warrant without probable cause. I think it’s a smart way to order a suspect to allow the people enforcing the law to go through a person’s property that way there is no conflict between the public. Sometimes I can see why it be a pain to go to the judge every time you need to search and take anything as evidence but this way it is legal and no problems with getting the evidence that is needed to convict a guilty individual.
b). Should the government be in the business of promoting civic engagement and political participation? Civic engagement has been defined as individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference, which should be important to everyone including the government. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes. Political participation is any activity that shapes, affects, or involves the political sphere. Political participation ranges from voting to attending a rally to committing an act of terrorism to sending a letter to a representative, which the government should show their own support in what they believe. So you could say that they need to focus on making the quality of life better for the future generations to come.