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Fionne Ma
Professor Butler
Political Science
26, February 2015
Artifact Three Reflection
In this discussion, I learned that, contrary to popular belief,
polices in fact are not allowed to search through ones phone without a
search warrant. Before, I had always believed that they could look
through my phone to find substantial evidence when convicting me of
a crime. However, now I know that I am not obligated to hand over my
phone to any police unless s/he has a warrant present. By reading this
article, I learned that I am protected under the Fourth Amendmentan
amendment that protects me against unwarranted searches. Now, I
have learned a beneficial piece of information that I can carry with me
my entire life.
Because the right to privacy is highly controversial in todays
discussions, the Supreme Court justices has made it clear that polices
cannot search through a persons phone for evidence, regardless of
how delinquent the crime and criminal are. Thus, this article has also
changed my perspective about the Supreme Court. Before reading this
article, I had believed that the Supreme Court was biased, favoring
only federal and state authorities. I believed so because in many
previous cases, I did not agree with their ultimate decisions, making it

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seem that they always sided with other powerful people. In this specific
case, however, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who was
clearly at fault but was found not guilty due to invasion of privacy.
Ultimately, this assignment has helped hone my summarization
skills. Before, I was very rusty in summarizing an article and would
extract every bit of information from the article. Usually the articles I
choose are lengthy and full of information, so I didnt have to worry
about

finding

the

right

information

to

summarize.

My

final

summarization would end up being paragraphs after paragraphs. But,

it was different with this particular article. This article was already
short as is, compared to the longer articles I have chosen, consisting
mostly of dialogues. While writing the summary, I had to work with the
scarce information presented in the article, jotting down the important,
useful information. Overall, summarizing this article provided me
better note taking skills, better summarization skills, and better
interpretation skills.
This assignment has definitely helped me study for other classes.
Before this assignment, I choose lengthy, dense articles because
everything was basically a main idea. So, it was completely different
when I had a shorter article with not too much information that I felt
was important. It definitely helped me clearly focus on the main ideas.
This assignment can help me study for other classes that require me to
summarize a short article.

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