Here's a little bit of history from another America: the Bill of Rights was designed to guard the folks from their authorities.
If the first Amendment's proper to speak out publicly was the individuals's wall of safety, then the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy was its buttress. It was as soon as thought that the government should neither be capable to cease residents from talking nor peer into their lives.
Consider that because the essence of the Constitutional era that ended when these towers got here down on September 11, 2001. Consider how privateness worked before 9/eleven and the way it works now in Post-Constitutional America. In Post-Constitutional America, the government might as effectively have taken scissors to the unique copy of the Constitution saved in the National Archives, then crumpled up the Fourth Amendment and tossed it in the rubbish can. The NSA revelations of Edward Snowden are, in that sense, not only a shock to the conscience but to the Fourth Amendment itself: our government spies on us.