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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments as they relate to crime, as well as addresses the dispensable exclusionary rule. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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citizen. It is by way of this infrastructure of democratic rule that the country has been able to enjoy and pursue the various constitutional rights inherent with being an
American. In a country where the people are voluntarily offered the freedoms of democracy and liberty, it can be said that "... democracy is the privilege of the informed
and the involved" (Muczyk PG). And if one is to be informed and involved in the democratic process, one would have to have "some familiarity" (Searle PG) with the
"fragile nature of individual freedom and democracy" (Chess 259). However, since the Constitutions inception, there have been some questionable applications of subsequent amendments which were put in place as
a means by which to protect citizens, yet are being employed instead to seemingly twist the original meaning. Such is the case with accused criminals and the Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Amendments, which are readily and routinely enforced with the help of the exclusionary rule. Key to realizing the fact that America
was intended to be a democracy from the start is the very documents that proposed such a fair and impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and
the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constitution to comprehend the length to which Americas forefathers were ready and willing to go
in the name of democracy. "Constitutions cannot create democracy; democracy creates constitutions. Bills of rights do not create rights, they codify rights already defined, fought for, and won"
(Barber PG). Indeed, critics have readily argued the fact that constitutional amendments four, five and six have lost their inherent meaning through severe judicial manipulation and favoritism. By
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