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USA Patriot Act: Right or Wrong Introduction “Good morning and welcome to the White House. Today, we take an essential step in defeating terrorism, while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans. With my signature, this law will give intelligence and law enforcement official’s important new tools to fight a present danger.” (Remarks by President George W. Bush at Signing of the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Legislation October 26, 2001) With the signing of this bill opened the debate for one of the most contreversal laws enacted to protect our freedoms. This bill will be at the debate table for many years as Individual rights and public order advocates debate it. Individual rights advocates against The center for constitutional rights states that the U.S. Patriot Act argue that the Act gives to mush power to the executive branch of the government, therefore violating the U.S. Constitution by “deliberately choosing methodologies that are largely outside of the purview of both the legislature and judiciary.” They also state that the government is using this act to secretly hold non-citizens in violation of constitutional rights. By the executive branch running the War On Terrorism they are i