Atmanta Journal-Constitution
by Jay Bookman

08/11/05

We do have a constitutional right to privacy. The right to speak as you wish, to pray as you wish, to be secure in your home against warrantless searches or seizures, are all based on the same underlying right to be left alone by government. The right to privacy, in fact, animates the entire Constitution, Bill of Rights included. The drafters of those documents felt no need to state what in their minds was already so obvious. Furthermore, if the Bill of Rights did not include an express ban on laws that tried to tell couples how many children to have, there was a very good reason. Not even King George, tyrannical as he was, would have dared to infringe on something so private. If the American people eventually lose the right to privacy against an intrusive government, if that protection is eventually removed from us by a more aggressive Supreme Court, a door swings open to a whole variety of government acts...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp