Question Description: The American Government has faced numerous lawsuits in attempts to balance security and the civil liberties of its citizens. From lawsuits questioning the legality of the USA PATRIOT Act to the separation of immigrant families, research, and analyze where your dissertation focus may face scrutiny if adopted into policy. Within your analysis after identifying the core factors of your research that will face resistance, present data that supports why you feel that your research is needed.
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The US Senate passed the PATRIOT ACT out of panic, a rushed amendment of the surveillance laws that existed. This amendment to the surveillance law, to a great extent, increased the state’s powers to monitor information of its people while at the same time reducing the check and balance mechanisms on those powers like judicial processes, accountability to the citizens, among others. For example, in Section 215, the PATRIOT Act allows the FBI to forcibly get information on clients’ details from people and organizations like doctors and bookstores. Critics of the PATRIOT Act have argued that section 215 of the Act is unconstitutional to the extent that it results in the government’s unchecked power. For instance, the person or organization forced to surrender its clients’ information is barred under the Act
