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This is a 10 page paper that provides an overview of Constitutional law. Challenges to law enforcement are explored by examining four Amendments. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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course, a vitally important cornerstone of American society. Despite its being cheaply utilized as tabula rasa mouthpiece by the virulently bipartisan discourse of contemporary American politics, it still has a
uniquely vital function in society. Without the Constitution, and in particular the later amendments such as those granted in the Bill of Rights and beyond, it would be impossible to
carry out the instrument of law in a fair and equal fashion. That said, the Constitution itself does present a number of inherent challenges and obstacles to law enforcement agencies
at the federal, state, and local level. This is as it should be: by all rights, it should be a "difficult" process to place a person behind bars, robbing them
of freedom, happiness, and property; the stakes are simply too great for it to be undertaken lightly, and without a definitive process for the presentation of evidence and the determination
of guilt. The obstacles presented to law enforcement by the Constitution and its amendments only serve to reinforce this "difficulty". This paper will attempt to examine four representative amendments from
the United States Constitution and look at how they interact with law enforcement agencies in a challenging way, as well as the legal ramifications of these interactions. This section
of the paper helps the student to provide a summary overview of the particular amendments under discussion. The first of the amendments to be examined is the all-important First Amendment
to the Constitution, and the first to appear in the "Bill of Rights", the collective of the first ten amendments. The First Amendment is the amendment which sets forth the
guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press, as well as the right to peaceably assemble (National Archives, 2011). "Freedom of speech" is so often
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