The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Students write an argument about a Fourth Amendment case, and, as a team, present their arguments orally.The Fourth Amendment prohibits the United States government from conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures. Fourth Amendment provides independent protection against warrantless searches. This information is to assist individuals in filing stipulated; non-contested amended judgments in marriage dissolution or paternity cases in Hennepin County. The essence of a provision forbidding the acquisition of evidence in a certain way is that not merely evidence so acquired. The phrase "persons, houses, papers, and effects" shows the Amendment's focus on property rights. Nor are they somehow "preferred" - a word nowhere in the Fourth Amendment.