The word "Privacy" leaves me cold.
The concept of "Privacy" makes my heart race. It seems so fundamental to democracy that I can't figure out why people could even argue it. The problem is that they do - or rather, they argue against Privacy as a proxy for something else. "Privacy," as the word is used in the legal sense, sounds like jargon. No matter how precise, jargon can always be painted as abstract and alien to those who are unfamiliar with its actual meaning. All it takes is a little verbal trickery to transfer confusion abut the term to confusion about the topic.
The word "Privacy" doesn't even appear in the Constitution. But the concept pervades it. The concept appears more explicitly in another document - a document of founding principles - in one of the most stunning sentences in political history.
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