| I have always been under the impression that your Constitution was meant explicitly to protect you from the law on such fundamental issues - different governments cam impose different laws, for example.
A question often asked about the Nazi regime is, 'Why did the Jews never defend themselves'? Well, the government had carefully relieved them by law of all weapons, down to and including kitchen knives.
Governments tend these days to take unto themselves as much power as they can and use it wherever their whim takes them; USA has probably been an exception so far; here we now have 100s of organisations who can insist upon invading our homes, in some cases there is a $10,000 fine for refusing access to these jobsworths.
An Englishman's home is certainly no longer his castle.
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