| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Admissible evidence - 1954 - 276 pages
...their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." And with this concern in mind, they rejected then and for all times these methods of police surveillance... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - Communism - 1954 - 1032 pages
...their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred as against the Government the right to be let alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of an individual,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Wiretapping - 1955 - 388 pages
...their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men * * *" (277 US, 438, 478). This expression Is an accurate appraisal of human values and of the... | |
| Robert Singh - Political Science - 2003 - 300 pages
...Blackmun ridiculed the majority's 'obsessive focus on homosexuality', arguing that the case was 'about the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men, the right to be left alone'. He mocked the notion that sodomy could be a criminal offence because... | |
| Stephen P. Naghdi, Muriel Wang - Fiction - 2003 - 301 pages
...[the framers of the Constitution] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be 1et a1one — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. — Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis Olmsteadv. United States, 1928 From Dangerous Dossiers... | |
| John Delaney - Criminal law - 2004 - 467 pages
...(1969), "the State has" no "right to control the moral content of a person's thoughts." We all have "the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of...rights and the right most valued by civilized man" (Justice Brandeis quoted in Stanley v. Georgia). To be sure, such bad thoughts are surely sins and... | |
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