| Description |
xlviii, 399 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
America's freedoms
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America's freedoms.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-380) and index. |
| Contents |
Origins -- Twentieth-century issues -- The twenty-first century -- Key people, cases, and events -- Documents. |
| Summary |
A thorough introduction to privacy law, covering landmark cases, important themes, historical curiosities, and enduring controversies. Annotation. Glenn (government and political affairs, Millersville U.) examines "the most abstract, most broad, most ill-defined, and what many consider to be the most difficult to grasp of America's freedoms<-- >the right to privacy." Coverage includes the significance of the right to privacy and its implications for the American political system, the origins and early development of this right, analysis of significant judicial decisions relating to its evolution during the 20th century, and discussion of issues and controversies in recent debates which suggest general trends in privacy jurisprudence. Written for upper-level high school and college students with no background knowledge of the topic. |
| Subject |
Privacy, Right of -- United States.
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Privacy, Right of. |
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United States. |
| ISBN |
1576077160 hardcover alkaline paper |
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