| Popis: |
CONCERNS THAT THE CREATION of a more powerful federal government might invite abuses of power were an important impetus to the enactment of the Bill of Rights. Proponents of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments worried over the original Constitution's failure to prohibit Congress from enacting legislation to restrict political associations or publications (an additional concern was that the absence of specific prohibitions gave undue latitude to federal officials investigating criminal conduct). At the time, neither a Department of Justice nor a Federal Bureau of Investigation existed. Congress created the former in 1870 and the Bureau was established in July 1908 by order of Attorney General Charles Bonaparte. Responding a year later to the controversy precipitated by his order creating the then-named Bureau of Investigation (formally named the FBI in 1935), Bonaparte denied that this federal detective force would monitor dissent against the state declaring that Bureau investigations would be confined solely to interstate commerce and anti-trust enforcement.' |
