The Patriot Act?

Question

What is in the Patriot Act? My teacher told us to read it next to The Bill Of Rights and see how it infringes upon it.

Answer 1

If your teacher told you to do this as you wrote it, your teacher is an idiot that hasn't read it.

The only way to read it is next to a full copy of the United States Code, as the Act is mostly sentence fragments being inserted or substituted in various parts of the Code.

It is patently impossible to have the faintest idea what it says or does by simply reading the Act itself. You cannot possibly know whether or not it impinges on the Bill of Rights without reference to the Code.

Now, in MY opinion, one not shared by the USSC, or anyone else for that matter, but the sheer unintelligibility of the Act SHOULD make it Unconstitutional, but such a theory would also render the entire Tax Code suspect.

What I would do is go ahead and read the Act next to the Bill of Rights, and observe how clear the Bill of Rights is compared to the Act. Each individual Amendment is self-explanatory, needs no outside documents to explain what it means, while the Act is one of the finest examples of Legislative Gobbledygook known to Mankind, absolutely unparalled in its incomprehensibility to the layman's eye.

Answer 2

Well the P act pretty much suspends the 4th amendment,allows warrantless wiretaps and internet surveilance.

Answer 3

If your teacher told you to do this, then it's YOUR homework assignment, and you should get to it.