Unpublished Paper
The Right to Privacy: How the Supreme Court Got Government Out of the Bedroom - Revised 2020.docx
(2020)
Abstract
In December of 1890, Mr. Samuel D. Warren and Mr. Louis Brandeis (later to be Supreme Court Justice Brandeis) published an article in the Harvard Law Journal entitled The Right to Privacy.[1] The article concerned itself primarily with the right of individuals to be sheltered from the tabloid press. However, it presented for the first time the concept that people had a right beyond the right to life for, as the learned gentlemen put it, “the right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life, - the right to be left alone.”[2] Today, the right to privacy means the right to be free from government interference in those intimate matters that are essential to the enjoyment of life and freedom. The path to that right of privacy has passed through the Supreme Court of the United States.
[1] 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193.
[2]Id. at 193.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall September 29, 2020
Citation Information
Albert E Poirier. "The Right to Privacy: How the Supreme Court Got Government Out of the Bedroom - Revised 2020.docx" (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/albert_poirier/18/