Private I's?
Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick
07/29/06)
Privacy is a fairly squishy legal concept -- springing, as it does, from somewhere deep within the greatest hits of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments. To which former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, back in a landmark 1965 case, helpfully contributed a backbeat of 'penumbras' and 'emanations' from the Constitution. When we talk about our 'right to privacy' -- whether it be freedom from government wiretapping or freedom to control our bodies -- we sometimes forget that this right exists largely in the quiet spaces between other, more concrete rights and freedoms. Courts attempting to patrol these boundaries make some wonky judgments...
http://www.slate.com/id/2146763/
by Dahlia Lithwick
07/29/06)
Privacy is a fairly squishy legal concept -- springing, as it does, from somewhere deep within the greatest hits of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments. To which former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, back in a landmark 1965 case, helpfully contributed a backbeat of 'penumbras' and 'emanations' from the Constitution. When we talk about our 'right to privacy' -- whether it be freedom from government wiretapping or freedom to control our bodies -- we sometimes forget that this right exists largely in the quiet spaces between other, more concrete rights and freedoms. Courts attempting to patrol these boundaries make some wonky judgments...
http://www.slate.com/id/2146763/
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