The Patriot Act : American Citizens Favor Their Civil Liberties

security, the American people have sacrificed too much liberty in favor of security. In order to gain a better understanding of the liberty vs. security debate, this paper will first provide background information on how the process of homeland security originated in the United States and how it led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Subsequently, this paper will analyze and evaluate arguments in support and opposition of the Patriot Act and its relation to the liberty vs. security

of another attack, many citizens demanded that their government improve its protection over its citizens. In response, the government presented the Patriot Act, a 342 page bill that gave federal officials more power to track and intercept communications, both for law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering purposes. In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked information to the public that the government was spying and collecting hundreds of information from millions of Americans without the use of any

The Patriot Act. On September 11, 2001 Muslim terrorists instilled with a hatred of the west attacked the United States in a brutal fashion. Planes were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York. Over three thousand people were killed and the impregnable nation known as America was know scared and vulnerable. Almost immediately the legislature began drafting an act that would make the war on terror and the fight for homeland security a little easier to fight, this would come to

These extraordinary men understood the concept of liberty and embraced it with great passion. They were all too familiar with the consequences of a government with excess power. In order to prevent America from returning to the ways of Great Britain, they crafted one of the greatest documents ever written, the Constitution of the United States of America. Contained in the Constitution is the Bill of Rights which details the rights the citizens of the United States of America are guaranteed.

as prisoners of war. Terrorists are engaged in a war like any other: they unite to undertake military action in favor of a specific cause. The fact that they do not represent one individual nation and that they are not at war with a specific list of states does not undermine this: It can be argued that terrorists are not engaged in a war. Their actions are aimed at destruction of civil

release under a writ of habeas corpus. The federal circuit court judge was Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who issued a ruling, Ex parte Merryman, denying the president's authority to suspend habeas corpus. Taney denounced Lincoln’s interference with civil liberties and argued that only Congress had the power to suspend the writ. Lincoln did not respond directly to Taney's edict, but he did address the issue in his message to Congress that July. He justified the suspension through Article I, Section 9, of

journalists and subsequently the American public. As a result, widespread distrust and questioning of the American government’s data-collection programs grew among American citizens and bipartisan leaders who were also subject to the surveillance apparatus of the

11th 2001, an event of the terroristic act forever changed America. Many citizens touched by the event caused a demand in measures for increased security among the country. The government was stuck with fear of another attack, Congress soon passed a law called the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”, or better known as the PATRIOT Act for short, on October 29th, 2001. Many fearful citizens were relieved at how the government

people in any country around the globe and ask questions as to who are terrorists and the word terrorism which brought to the Unite States the birth of Patriot Act as well as the controversy surrounding the Act as a whole, we will see that the patriot act went too far because certain provisions seem to violate the constitutional rights of the citizens of this country. First, I see terrorism as war and a terrorist in my view is a soldier going to war for certain purpose and reason to destroy. If captured

Today in United States we take many of our civil liberties for granted that are given to us by the American Constitution and Bill of Rights but it was not always this way. Since the founding of our nation personal liberties have been held in the highest regard being written into the founding documents of our country and has been updated to ensure it is accurately protects the ideas and beliefs of its citizens. The liberties granted to the American people were the first of its kind in a world predominantly