that would soon be known as "The Constitution of the United States of America". This

Constitution was to be the supreme law of the land. Our Constitution was set up in order to form

a more perfect union, and to give the people under its provision certain unalienable rights.

Among the rights granted to the people are: the right to free speech, the right to keep and bear

arms, and the right of the people to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. Today

I will demonstrate for you how the Constitution has become only a small stumbling block in the

Federal Government's efforts to increase its power through the use of legal precedents.

A prime example of how the government pirouettes around the Constitution is seen in the

case of Chimel versus The Supreme Court of California. On March 27, 1969 several police

officers showed up on the petitioner's (Chimel) doorstep to arrest him on charges of burglary.

Upon answering the doorbell the petitioner was served with an arrest warrant. Shortly after the

arrest, while still at the petitioners house, the officers asked if t

sufficient information on the suspect to constitute an arrest. The court also held that the search

consideration, the Supreme Court affirmed that the arrest was legal because the officers had

was justified as incident to a valid arrest. A valid arrest...so what! The fourth amendment of

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