In this session, students will examine the historical context and the drafting of the Fourth Amendment. Fourth Amendment found easy acceptance in the Supreme Court30 and that acceptance controlled decision in numerous cases.The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizures of our person, our house, our papers, and our effects. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. If the government trespasses onto private property to obtain information, the original meaning test says that's a search subject to Fourth Amendment scrutiny. Clark Neely is here to talk about the Fourth Amendment and we are very excited to get started. In the 1970s, the Supreme Court handed down Smith v. Maryland and United States v. Probable cause is a Fourth Amendment requirement that usually must be met before the police make an arrest, conduct a search, or receive a warrant. The court explained that "there is nothing in the Court's prior cases indicating that under the.