The right to be let alone in a world of cultural diversity The right to be let alone, as Justice Louis Brandeis famously put it in “Olmstead v. United States”, is commonly associated with the right to privacy in the Fourth Amendment. The constitutional “[...] right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures [...]” critically separates the spheres of life and wards off many dangers from the government. However, in a society so culturally diverse as ours, the right to be let alone takes on much greater significance than...
Culture, Society, and Freedom of Association
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