Article Image

News Link • Surveillance

The Right to be Left Alone

• Ron Paul Institute - Andrew P. Napolitano

Here is the backstory.

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn't create the right; it limits government interference with it. President Joe Biden often misquoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting that Justice Scalia believed that the Bill of Rights creates rights. As Justice Scalia wrote, referring to the right to keep and bear arms but reflecting his view on the origins of all personal liberty, the Bill of Rights secures rights; it doesn't create them. It secures preexisting rights from interference by the government.

Those who drafted the Bill of Rights recognized that human rights are pre-political. They preceded the existence of the government. They come from our humanity, and in the case of privacy, they are reinforced by our ownership or legal occupancy of property.


thelibertyadvisor.com/declare