“Even on this forum, people are starting to think for themselves”
You could get a little negative feedback on that one. ;-)
The fourth amendment, mentioned multiple times, is one of the strictures meant to keep the Federal government specifically a limited government. Government was understood to be raw power and letting it expand and exercise aspects of that power defeats the confines of a limited nature.
When it is not limited it then can easily become arbitary and the very definition of despotic.