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What were the chief provisions in the USA Patriot Act?

A. The government could eavesdrop on telephone calls and privileged conversations between prisoners and their lawyers.
 B. The government could prosecute individual citizens for not supporting the War on Terror.
 C. The government could violate due process laws if a citizen was deemed to be unpatriotic.
 D. The government could require citizens to swear an oath of patriotism if they were deemed a threat to the country.
 E. T he government could pass legislation without the sufficient number of votes if it was deemed essential to US safety.

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The chief provisions in the USA Patriot Act were that "C. The government could violate due process laws if a citizen was deemed to be unpatriotic" but "unpatriotic" is misleading here. More "suspicious"
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