What is Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
{{US Constitution article series}} [[Image:Bill of Rights Pg1of1 AC.jpg|190px|thumb|The Bill of Rights in the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]]] The '''Fourth Amendment''' ('''Amendment IV''') to the [[United States Constitution]] prohibits [[wikt:reasonable|unreasonable]] [[Search and seizure|searches and seizures]] and requires any [[Warrant (law)|search warrant]] to be [[Judiciary|judicially sanctioned]] and supported by [[probable cause]]. It is part of the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]]. The Fourth amendment was adopted in response to the abuse of the [[writ of assistance]], a type of general search warrant issued by the [[British Empire|British government]]. It was a major source of tension in [[American Revolution|pre-Revolutionary America]]. The Fourth Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by [[James Madison]], along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/billofrights.html |title=The Bill of Rights |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> They were proposed in response to [[Anti-Federalist]] objections to the new Constitution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/DocumentToolsPortletWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&jsid=f69959176f31d3386679eb79fa8af230&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3446700068&u=beth65358&zid=9b8d4073460f7c660e68696dc2fe777e |title=Anti-Federalists |publisher=U.S. History in Context/Gale Cengage Learning |access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> Congress sent 12 amendments to the [[States of the United States|states]] in August of 1789.<ref name=BORI>{{cite web |url=http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/ |title=Bill of Rights of the United States of America (1791) |publisher=Bill of Rights Institute |access-date=28 January 2016 |archive-date=3 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203213231/http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-docum