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"the fourth Amendment wasn't written for people with nothing to hide any more than the first amendment was written for people with nothing to say" Anybody know the meaning to this quote???​

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The quote is implying that essentially the existence of the fourth amendment was to protect people’s ability to hide things or their privacy. The correlation here between the first amendment part is because the first was written to allow all kinds of speech basically saying it wasn’t written for people who didn’t want to speak it was written for people to be able to speak. So essentially the fourth was made for people to hide things and the first for people to speak.
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