The essence of any community is determining who is in it and what are its governing values and process. Our governing values are our constitution, which includes a suspicion of governmental power, and provides rights to "persons" in the country. These rights are guaranteed by a process by which the government can arrest us. In the Fourth Amendment, we gave ourselves the right not to be arrested without probable cause that we have committed a crime, and a warrant being issued by a judge. The police, on their own, do not get to arrest us and hold us. We get taken before a judge within 24 hours or 48 hours over a weekend. We can explain things to the judge in a public courtroom.