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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McWhirter, Darien A. (Darien Auburn) Privacy as a constitutional right. New York : Quorum Books, 1992 (OCoLC)644131504 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Darien A McWhirter; Jon D Bible |
| ISBN: | 0899306381 9780899306384 |
| OCLC Number: | 25130618 |
| Description: | viii, 206 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. The Foundations of Constitutional Privacy. 2. The Historical Foundation: From Hittites to Puritans. 3. The Philosophical Foundation: From Natural Law to Natural Rights. 4. The Constitutional Foundation: From Natural Rights to Substantive Due Process. 5. The Common Law Foundation: Creating the Right to Privacy -- Pt. II. Constitutional Privacy. 6. Creating Constitutional Privacy. 7. Sex and Marriage. 8. Life and Death. 9. Mind and Body -- Pt. III. Beyond Constitutional Privacy. 10. Who Owns History? 11. State Constitutional Privacy. 12. Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | Darien A. McWhirter and Jon D. Bible. |
Abstract:
Supreme Court decisions concerned with privacy issues such as sex, drugs, abortion, and the right to die. The legal evolution of the constitutional right to privacy is explored with every significant Supreme Court decision explained along the way. This book begins with an overview of the legal history that has led to the development of a constitutional right to privacy. The relationship between morality and law, from the Hittites to the Puritans, is presented, as is the.
impact of the ideas of philosophers such as Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Mill, along with an overview of the concepts of Natural Law and Natural Rights. The development of the right to privacy in American Common law is presented, and the important Supreme Court decisions on privacy from Griswold to Roe v. Wade are discussed in detail.
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