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The dual system of privacy rights in the United States / Mary McThomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McThomas, Mary, author.
- Series:
- Law, Courts and Politics
- Law, courts and politics ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privacy, Right of--United States.
- Privacy, Right of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theoretically, the right to privacy is an individual's right to space away from the public gaze to make life choices that are best for her or him, regardless of the beliefs of the majority. Yet the right to privacy in the United States has proven problematic for both political theorists and constitutional scholars, as it does not conform to theoretical conceptions of privacy or to existing theories of constitutional development.Mary McThomas provides a new model that helps us to think about both the right to privacy as well as constitutional development. She first divides priv
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Legal history and theoretical development: the different foundations and formations of decisional and proprietary privacy
- Marital privacy
- Conversational privacy
- Theoretical and political implications
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-116) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-12856-1
- 0-203-07695-8
- 1-299-27991-0
- 1-135-12857-X
- 9780203076958
- OCLC:
- 830160913
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