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Paper discussing the patriot act.
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Paper discussing the patriot act Patriot Act Passed in a rush after the September 11th terrorist attacks, The Patriot Act provides the government, including law enforcement agencies, with new, unregulated powers aimed, supposedly, at protecting the country from future terrorism. These new powers, previously denied to law enforcement, threaten our most basic civil liberties and, some believe, violate the constitution. Passage of this act eliminated checks and balances previously in place to ensure that law enforcement and other government agencies would not abuse surveillance powers on American citizens. One could argue, however, that despite the Patriot Act and its violation of civil liberties, the government has always been able to violate American civil liberties. Patriot Act or not, we might never have had these protected rights to begin with. The Senate and the House of Representatives passed the Patriot Act on October 24, 2001, and on October 26, President Bush signed the act...
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