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The constitution has plenty of privacy rights, our government just chooses to circumvent them through sly interpretation, backed up by the courts. The legal ab
by Clubber 9y ago
The constitution has plenty of privacy rights, our government just chooses to circumvent them through sly interpretation, backed up by the courts.
The legal ability of police to spy that we have today is such circumvention.
But to your point, if the government of the last 5 decades is willing to skirt the constitution as written, I'm not sure how much a new one with stronger verbiage will fair.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIt seems the Constitution leaves a lot to room for interpretation. Otherwise placing people on the supreme court wouldn't be such a big deal. Tightening up some paragraphs would probably help a lot.