Rights Assignment

1. My right is Privacy. The word privacy is not mentioned in the Bill of Rights. Amendment 4 is the closest to implying privacy which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Also the courts have interpreted certain amendments protecting privacy in other areas. The First Amendment has been used to protect the right of individuals to associate with other people and groups without government intrusion. The Fifth Amendment upholds the right to refuse to testify against yourself in a criminal case. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protects privacy in certain matters relating to marriage, reproduction, health care, family relationships, and child rearing and education. State constitutions and laws also protect many of the same areas of personal privacy.

2. The reason why my right exists is so that we as a people have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm our good name, enter our house, open our letters, or bother us or our family without a good reason. Also so we have the right to control the disclosure of personal information about ourselves. It also covers people's freedom to make their own decisions about their personal lives in case the government attempts to regulate our behavior.

3. What it means to exercise my right is not having any documents that have information about myself released to anyone without my consent. Also I have the right to say no to the government if they want to intrude in my house, or personal life without me giving them a reason to think that I might be a threat to someone else.

4.The limitations that exist on our right to privacy are the cameras that are placed inside and outside of schools, and the cameras that are on street corners. Also that you can go onto google earth and just look down on whoever you want whenever you want.

5. These limitations exist on our right to privacy because their are people in the world that want to do a lot of damage to other people, an example of this are terrorist. Also the government wants to know what we as a people are doing so they can try to keep crime down. But their are cases where the government violates our right to privacy just because they can.

6. If I had to give up this right, in return I would want homosexual people to have all the same rights as straight people. I would want the government to do something about all the poverty going on around the world. Also I would want the government to step in and help countries that are having civil wars, for example Darfur.