The Right to Privacy

by Janet E. Smith

Foreword by Robert Bork

Janet Smith, well-known philosophy professor and writer, presents a critical look at the meaning of the "right to privacy" that has been so often employed by the Supreme Court in recent times to justify the creation of rights not found in the Constitution by any traditional method of interpreting a legal document. Smith shows how these inventions have led to the legal protection of abortion, assisted suicide, homosexual acts, and more. As Judge Bork says it shows that "morals legislation now seems constitutionally impermissible", and that the counterfeit right to privacy belongs to the genre of the indecipherable and incoherent that no one who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would have contemplated.

105 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2008

About the author

Janet Elizabeth Smith (born 1950) is an American classicist and philosopher, and former professor of moral theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan.

Reviews

[Michal Paszkiewicz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covers the idea of a "right to privacy" and makes the point that there is no clear definition of what this actually is in legislation. The author then points out that arguing for a Right To Privacy leads to many hypocrisies and leads to the glorification of historically criminal activities. Well worth a read.

[Geoffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice legal and philosophical introduction to the so-called "right to privacy."