Bibliograph

The right to privacy, rights and liberties under the law, Richard A. Glenn

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The right to privacy, rights and liberties under the law, Richard A. Glenn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-380) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The right to privacy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52377415

Responsibility statement

Richard A. Glenn

Series statement

America's freedoms

Sub title

rights and liberties under the law

Summary

A thorough introduction to privacy law, covering landmark cases, important themes, historical curiosities, and enduring controversies. Annotation. Glenn (government and political affairs, Millersville U.) examines "the most abstract, most broad, most ill-defined, and what many consider to be the most difficult to grasp of America's freedoms<-->the right to privacy." Coverage includes the significance of the right to privacy and its implications for the American political system, the origins and early development of this right, analysis of significant judicial decisions relating to its evolution during the 20th century, and discussion of issues and controversies in recent debates which suggest general trends in privacy jurisprudence. Written for upper-level high school and college students with no background knowledge of the topic

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction. Definitions of privacy ; The significance of privacy ; Privacy in the U.S. political system ; Current breadth of the right to privacy -- 2. Origins. The philosophical foundations ; The constitutional foundations ; The common law foundations -- 3. Twentieth-century issues. Reproductive autonomy ; Family autonomy ; Sexual autonomy ; Personal autonomy -- 4. The twenty-first century. The right to die ; Family autonomy ; Sexual autonomy ; Informational privacy -- 5. Key people, cases, and events -- 6. Documents. "The right to privacy," / by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (1890), 292 -- Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance Company (1905), 309 -- Meyer v. Nebraska (1923), 310 -- Olmstead v. United States (1928) (Brandeis, J. dissenting), 313 -- Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942), 315 -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), 316 -- Loving v. Virginia (1967),322 -- Roe v. Wade (1973), 323 -- Bowers v. Hardwick (1986). 330 -- Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990), 335 -- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), 340 -- Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Wasson (1992), 345 -- Washington v. Glucksberg (1997), 347

Target audience

adolescent

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