CJ 4450 Study Guide - Final Guide: Strict Constructionism, William Rehnquist, Fetus

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 4450
• Professor: Marian Williams

Document Summary

Right to privacy: no specific reference to privacy in the constitution, legalistic views: Some who support strict construction and original intent state that there is no right to privacy. Others who support the same claim that privacy only extends to those protections found in the. Others look at the wording of the ninth amendment to claim a full right to privacy: moralistic views: Libertarians argue that there is an absolute right from government interference in our private lives and that morality should be kept out of the law. Conservatives argue that government interference is necessary to protect us from ourselves and that morality"s place is in the law. Liberals are somewhat in-between: a majority of legal scholars and the public feel there is a right to privacy; the question is: what is the extent of it, constitutional foundations. 1st amendment: freedom of thought and association. 3rd amendment: prohibits quartering of soldiers during peacetime.