The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector.…

— Al Franken

I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you…

— Jeffrey Rosen

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the…

— William J. Brennan

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe…

— Sara Paretsky

Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth…

— Ray McGovern

The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of…

— Ilana Mercer

This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of…

— Butch Otter

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the…

— Nat Hentoff

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification…

— Anthony Kennedy

...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the…

— Harry Browne

The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today…

— Ron Paul

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

— Peter Camejo

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

— Rand Paul

The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government…

— Elizabeth Holtzman