![]() Some people think it worked, while others think it did the opposite, creating more subjectivity by taking the point of view of the officer, not the civilian. Connor the Court tried to bring more objectivity into cases of excessive use of force by police officers. The word “unreasonable” in the Fourth Amendment obviously leaves a lot of room for interpretation, and the Supreme Court has tried to define what constitutes a reasonable search or seizure, in all sorts of Fourth Amendment contexts. ![]() An unreasonable “search and seizure” can be something obvious, like a police officer entering someone’s home without a warrant, or it can be subtler, like putting a wiretap on a person’s phone. This amendment prohibits the government from making unreasonable searches and seizures of private property. Under this amendment, the government must have a compelling reason to search or seize you or your home. The Fourth Amendment tries to strike a balance between the government’s need to provide for social order with the individual’s right to live in their home safe from most governmental interference. ![]() Click here to turn on autoplay, and listen to the album as you read Jad Abumrad - host, Radiolab & More Perfect P.S. Most of all, we’re deeply indebted to all the musicians below that gave their time, talents, and energies to the project. Thanks to the National Constitution Center for partnering with us on the essays below. We’re calling it “27: The Most Perfect Album,” and I hope it ends up on some playlists, maybe in a classroom or two. These songs are a small way to say that these words matter. So we invited some of the best musicians in the world to create songs inspired by each of the 27 amendments a kind of “Schoolhouse Rock!” for the 21st Century. With that in mind, the team at More Perfect challenged ourselves to come up with a way to give these words the swagger they deserve. Not only that, they show a country changing and evolving and re-imagining itself striving (and not always succeeding) to be better. But these 27 “insertions” to our founding document outline our basic rights as Americans. I’d venture a guess that most Americans (like us, before we started this project) can’t name more than one or two amendments to the Constitution, let alone remember that there are 27 of them.
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