[Badray]

I think the 4th should provide protection.....but I suspect that once the 16th was ratified, the "necessary and proper" clause provided the means by which the 4th and 5th amendment protections were effectively eviscerated.

I think that you are probably right but what action they took was based solely on what they considered 'necessary' and ignored the part that limited them to what was 'proper'.

In all things, the government is still to be bound by the strictures placed on it no matter how onerous the government feels those strictures are.

They, and too many of 'we', have forgotten that the government is there to serve us and not to serve as our masters.

[Conservative Goddess]

This warrants repetition:

"They, and too many of 'we', have forgotten that the government is there to serve us and not to serve as our masters."