11.6 Interactive Knowledge Check: The Fourth Amendment

1. The text of the Fourth Amendment asserts that the people are secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, from what types of searches and seizures?

2. According to the text of the Fourth Amendment, warrants that are issued must ________

3. Which of these technologies have been at the center of a Supreme Court case involving the FourthAmendment?

4. In colonial America, what royal orders gave officials the power to break into people’s homes to search for anything, anytime, and for any reason?

5. Which Boston lawyer argued against arbitrary searches by the British government, leading John Adams to later write, “Then and there, the child Independence was born”?

6. What was the defense of the Englishmen John Wilkes, after he had been arrested under the charge of criticizing the king, also known as “seditious libel”?

7. Americans celebrated the legal victory of John Wilkes against the issue of general warrants by ______________

8. What is a court order obtained from a judge who is convinced that there is probable cause to support a search of a particular person or place?

9. During the era of Prohibition, the police gathered evidence on Roy Olmstead, a suspected bootlegger, by __________

10. In the case of Olmstead v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the evidence used to convict Roy Olmstead________

11. Which Supreme Court justice, who dissented in the Olmstead case, wrote about how future technologies might allow for intrusive searches without physical trespass?

12. The Supreme Court case of Katz v. United States (1967) focused on what piece of technology that is rarely used today?

13. In ruling in favor of Katz in 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that he did have a reasonable expectation of privacy when he made his call, and stated that _________

14. Which of the following was part of the test that Justice John Marshall Harlan II offered in his concurrence in the Katz case?

15. When an individual gives information or data to someone else—like a private company—they generally abandon their reasonable expectation of privacy in that information or data. When the government tries to obtain this information, it is not considered a search for FourthAmendment purposes. Therefore, the government is not required to get a warrant before getting access to it. This is known as _____

16. In the 2012 case of Jones v. United States, Jones argued that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated when __________

17. In the 2014 case of Riley v. United States, the Supreme Court argued that ___________.

18. In answering the question of whether the government can track you 24 hours a day, seven days a week for an entire month using your cell phone data and your geolocation information, the Supreme Court in Carpenter v. United States (2018) said __________

19. Generally, courts will throw out evidence that the police got by violating the Fourth Amendment. This is known as __________

20. Justice Louis Brandeis asserted that the purpose of the Fourth Amendment was to protect this right, which he said is the right most valued by civilized men