How do the United States Patriot Act 2001 and its reauthorization in 2005 impact individual civil liberties?
What will be an ideal response?
These acts significantly widened the investigative authority of law enforcement agencies across the country, thus shifting the delicate balance of police power and civil liberties.
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The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and this applied to excessive force cases in corrections. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the test for the legality of use of force against prisoners is whether the force is applied in a ______ effort to maintain or restore discipline, or whether it is applied sadistically and maliciously for the specific purpose of causing harm.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
There are differences in the old and the new concepts on the constitutionality of surveillance
What will be an ideal response?
The USA Patriot Act constrains all four traditional tools of surveillance-wiretaps, search warrants, pen/trap orders, and subpoenas
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