The Fourth Amendment and the personal ri... by Potter Stewart

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The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

- Potter Stewart

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People

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

- Potter Stewart

Force

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

- Potter Stewart

In the absence of the governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry — in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government. For this reason, it is perhaps here that a press that is alert, aware, and free most vitally serves the basic purpose of the First Amendment. For, without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people.

- Potter Stewart

Constitution

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

- Potter Stewart

Fact Right

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

- Potter Stewart

Home Man

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

- Potter Stewart

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