Constitution

Another portion of the Bill of Rights that has been under government assault for many, many, years is the Fifth Amendment. We generally understand that the Fifth Amendment protects our rights in court proceedings. But it also protects our property from government. Or rather it's supposed to protect our property from government.

Is the content of your emails private? It's not a question regarding the strength of your email account's password. Instead, we're referring to a bill moving through congress">Congress that would update the nation's email privacy laws. Right now, critics charge the protections are flimsy and must be strengthened.

Kentucky Senator, and GOP presidential hopeful, Rand Paul staged his 10 hour talk-a-thon on the Senate floor against renewal of the Patriot Act on Wedensday night. How did it go?

We have written extensively on the multiple threats government at all levels poses to the Fourth Amendment. But some readers have asked us: why should conservatives care?

congress">Congress is debating changes to the Patriot Act -- through legislation dubbed the "freedom">freedom">Freedom Act " -- that proponents say will constrain government's ability to spy on the American people.

Conservatives have traditionally been supportive of law enforcement. That's been a little harder to do in recent years, as it appears as though law enforcement has become a threat to, rather than a protector of, our liberties. How has this happened?

We've written a great deal about goverment's intrusions upon, and violations of, the protections and guarantees in the Bill of Rights. As battered as some of these Amendments are today, they still stand as a bulwark against unbridled government power. But could the Bill of Rights be enacted today? Charles C.W. Cooke says "no":

If we needed proof that some people in the federal government don't understand (nevermind follow)he constitution">constitution">Constitution, we present the example of Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Securi

It's not an issue most Republican or Democratic politicians are eager to discuss, but the protections guaranteed to us in the Fourth Amendment are under assault. It didn't happen overnight, but rather by a slow, steady, accumulation of laws, regulations, and court opinions.