Constitutional Privacy Protection
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First Amendment right to free expression
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Fourth Amendment freedom from
governmental overreaching
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Substantive liberty interests
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New Jersey State Constitution
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Constitutional Privacy Protection
Central to the American legal tradition: free speech and privacy
1
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A and 4
th
A make us distinct from dictatorships
Framers, in perilous times, created balance of powers
burden: can’t seize evidence, intercept or detain w/o probable cause
but this burden is fundamental to protect the rights of citizens
in a constitutional democracy
Substantive liberty interests (birth control, child rearing)
NJ state constitution (consensual relations, “right to die”)