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Bob Inglis: “The truth of the matter is, all of us believe in the fourth amendment, all of us believe in the Constitution, and there…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1995
The truth of the matter is, all of us believe in the fourth amendment, all of us believe in the Constitution, and there is nothing that I would not do to embrace it. If we had a vote out here tomorrow to say Bill McCollum, vote for the fourth amendment, I would be in there saying I would certainly vote for it. I cannot imagine anybody who would not vote for it. But that is not what the gentleman is asking us to do. He is asking us to wipe out the bill in the process of voting for the Constitution. It is not inconsistent on our part to say heck, we do not want to do that. The Constitution stands free and clear in its own right. We do not disturb it. But we want to modify a rule of court that has been used for a number of years in certain ways to patrol this constitutional right. That is all we want to do. We do not want to wipe out the right, and I thank the gentleman for yielding.
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Bob Inglis
South Carolina
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Discussing the importance of the Fourth Amendment during a debate on a related bill.

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