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What Would a "A Constitutional Right to Privacy" Entail?

A Constitutional Right to Privacy

I've long thought that Democrats could benefit from making "privacy" a plank of their platform. People instinctively don't like government meddling in their private lives, and "privacy" is a broad enough notion to encompass everything from reproductive freedom to the Patriot Act.

How about starting an effort to enshrine a right to privacy in the Constitution? Maybe it's time to make it explicit, rather than continue the tedious debate over whether the Constitution really guarantees such a right.


Little do these morons know, an serious and enforced right to privacy would ruin their precious state. Some of the commenters in that thread recognize that, and are doing their level best to retain the facets of regulation they see as absolutely vital to a functioning society.

Posted by drizzten on November 18, 2005 04:11 PM |

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What the hell is privacy? Didn't the state rule that abortion was some weird private matter or something? If anything this broad word "Privacy" enables the state to control anything they want. For instance abortion is privacy while, something the founders intended, unwarranted searches is completely not an issue of privacy.

What is privacy? Apparently it's whatever the courts decide it is. Next thing ya know privacy will mean the same thing as split peas or turtleneck sweaters.

Senselessness.

Posted by: somasoul | November 20, 2005 09:54 PM

The idea of a right to privacy is a convenient statist replacement for the true basis of all rights -- property. It's easier to change the meaning of "privacy" in order to define away certain rights while retaining ones that are relatively harmless to the state (like abortion).

Posted by: Roy W. Wright | November 21, 2005 02:21 AM

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