Posted on 11/28/2012 10:55:03 AM PST by jazusamo
Edited on 11/28/2012 11:25:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was written in order to keep the government from invading the right to be left alone--today known as the right to privacy. The Framers who wrote the Constitution, and Jefferson and his colleagues who insisted on the Fourth amendment among others, had suffered grievously at the hands of the British king and his soldiers.
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“Doctor Zhivago” was about a man who just wanted to be left during the Russian Revolution. This made him an enemy of the new order, which informed him,
“The personal life is dead. History has killed it.”
Look up the author Boris Pasternak & what Khrushchev and the KGB did to him for writing this novel.
That should read “left alone”.
There I was in 1977 sitting the front of my Philosophy of Education class at Bentley College. The professor was introducing us to Plato’s Republic and there I was in my “ANTHEM” tee shirt (it was the name of my band) and she just stopped and said “oh, YOU read Ayn Rand?”
Haven’t you heard?
Our Constitution has conveniently “evolved” once again.
Haha! Good one. I’d be interested in hearing if your professor ever got to the part where even Plato admitted that his utopian republic was not possible. My bet is she stopped short of that aspect....
;-)
The last piece of that right was thrown in the garbage with the advent of the so-called "Patriot Act".
Haven’t you heard? The 4th amendment is for abortion. that’s it.
The “right to privacy”?
Didn’t the Supreme Court come up with that when they noticed an emanation from a penumbra back ‘73?
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