or not it is a good idea to renew the Patriot Act. To begin, the Patriot Act is the act that was signed by George W. Bush in 2001, directly after the tragic incident of 9/11, to prevent any further terrorist attacks on the nation. Initially, this plan seemed fitting at the time and was most likely to help the nation calm down after such a horrific event occurred on the nation's own soil. However, the extent at which the nation has started using the Patriot Act to tap into civilians phones, laptops
The USA Patriot Act is an anti-terrorism law sanctioned by the U.S. Congress in October 2001, at the solicitation of then-President George W. Bush, because of the terrorist assaults that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. The Act is to insure that we the people of the United States are protected from terrorists but some believe that it infringe our civil liberties. The law gave new powers to the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Security Organization and universal observation of electronic interchanges;
When the act was passed, only one senator voted against it, claiming it was a violation of the Constitution’s basic civil liberties (“Patriot Act II”). Fourteen years after the act was passed, more Americans visualize the true intentions behind the Patriot Act, and the government took a different approach to national security as a result. Arguably the most controversial aspect of the Patriot Act was the government’s right to collect citizens’ personal records; the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Patriot Act is an act passed by the Bush administration after the events of 9-11. The Patriot Act is an overhaul of security in America and especially in its airports. What makes the Patriot Act so controversial is what it did to violate the constitution. It violates Americans privacy in an unpresented way. Americans lost pretty much all freedom in airports and we are now being watched by the Government in ways that we could have never imagined. We are being tracked, scanned and listened to at
These events led to the Patriot Act of 2001. The Patriot Act of 2001 was created to protect the lives of U.S. citizens. There is a lot to the act, like the reasons it was created, the parts of the act, and success and failures of the act. The Patriot Act would go on to become the most controversial act of all-time. There are a countless number of people who do not think the Patriot Act of 2001 has made a difference in preventing an attack. The main reason for the Patriot Act was the events on September
The Acts as They Violate the Constitution of the United States While the Espionage Act and the Patriot Act contained different methods of combating those who were dangerous to the United States, those methods are similar in one very significant manner: they violate the basic principles stated in the Constitution of the United States. The first of these violations is that of the First Amendment to the Constitution, where it is stated that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech”
Political Science 201 Patriot Act Dalton Potts Professor Trokkos Spring 2015 The USA Patriot Act The United States of America responded quickly with a bundle of drastic measures as a result of the attacks on September 11, 2001 as well as the anthrax attacks one week later. The country had been attacked and forced to unite in order to fight the enemy and protect the homeland. The response by the American government was to find a solution that would protect the American people. On October 26, 2001
Some of the cons in leaving the England would have been that when the war ended, there had been many economic troubles that leaders searched a way to restore order without sacrificing their freedoms. (Lecture: The Revolution, 2). Another con of the Revolutionary War would have been that it also increased tensions between America and Britain for years after the war. A pro would be that the Americans no longer had to play large taxes, such as the Stamp Act, which had been to accommodate the extremely
African slaves and Negroes played an important role in Revolutionary America because they actively pursued their freedom in many forms such as letters, petitions and taking up arms for the British/Loyalists or Patriots during the war. Whites fighting for their freedom from Great Britain gave slaves and free Negroes a perfect opportunity to use the American Revolution to their advantage to fight with or against their oppressors for their own freedom. The conditions and lack of independence that
argued for years that the government would use the Patriot Act to conduct such wholesale data collection. The government denied it. (Yahoo) As a planet we have seen this type of government surveillance before. In Germany, the USSR, Eastern Europe, but we are letting history repeat itself. We are allowing the government to amass an inordinant power. The NSA and the government consider these programs beneficial but the cons certainly outweigh the pros. While an enormous amount of Americans are outraged