Right to Privacy Amendment

[Edward Still]

On DailyKos, Kos just asked (at 
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/18/1264/8324)


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.

And if we're going to advocate such a new Amendment, what would it 
look like? What would the text look like?

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Out of the 499 I quickly scanned, I found some with actual 
suggestions (most of the comments were just blather about abortion, 
corporations, gay marriage, etc.).  Too long to quote even the good 
ones.  But what would you suggest?



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