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.
Don’t you love when we’re told the evidence was thrown out on a technicality? LOL. A technicality called the 4th amendment.
I helped my son do some research for a paper on the Fourth Amendment with regard to no-knock raids. (Deemed by English common law as “unreasonable”). This gathering of information could be viewed in similar fashion. And in some ways is worse as we don’t know that we have been violated.
Some excerpted points:
Lord Camden, the English Chief Justice made this famous statement:
“The great end, for which men entered into society, was to secure their property. That right is preserved sacred and incommunicable in all instances, where it has not been taken away or abridged by some public law for the good of the whole.”
[Of course the “good of the whole” could be twisted - like it was in the colonies.
And the internet spying of today could in many ways be likened to the British searches and seizures of the colonist’s political pamphlets railing against the British Government and King.