Amendment 4: Protection against illegal 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 probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

 This amendment covers the privacy of our property, to be protected from intrusion by the government without a  warrant and probable cause. This protects us as individuals from being searched at will by officers, military, etc. You and your things a safe and private until you do something of probable cause to lead the government to seize or search you. This could be anything as small as your wallet, to your entire home, so this covers a entire array of property.

This speech talks about technologies surrounding us during these modern times and things our Founding Fathers may have never had the capacity to imagine when making law. Things like drones, surveillance cameras, and other means of new camera technology. This can lead to interesting data collected beyond what was formerly thought of as "unreasonable searches". The probable cause can be gained through questionable means, making our privacy less so. Really makes you think about this amendment further as our landscape as a society has changed.

This video brings up multiple cases where the Supreme Court ruled differently on two school cases involving the 4th Amendment. One backed drug tests in schools while the other deemed a "degrading" search of a 13 year old student for pills was unconstitutional. The first upholding the better interests of the students, while permitting unwarranted searches directly upon one student, especially not their clothes and undergarments. It shows a good line of where the4th amendment protects the individual from random, violating searches.