Monday, May 15, 2006

Let's have a Right to Privacy

The Harvard Crimson has an opinion piece Listen to Nino. "I have little use for Justice Antonin Scalia’s famous ornery manner and his contrarian flamboyance, but it’s nearly impossible to question his intelligence...he asserted his judicial principle: if it isn’t in the Constitution, it isn’t constitutional; if we want it in the Constitution, let’s add it. I agree. Let’s amend the Constitution to include the right to privacy." I agree too.

The hard part is writing the amendment. The article recommends the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation." A little vague, but a good start.

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