... is not an automatic right given to anyone, which of course includes teachers. So the question is obvious that whether teachers have the right to search students. According to the U.S. laws, unless there are reasonable grounds, teachers have no right to search students for drugs on school grounds. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search, because the Fourth ... you have nothing to hide why should you care, right? Wrong. The reason is that most people like to have some measure of freedom, and being free means having personal privacy. How free would you feel if you w...

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... Joseph B. Clark argued the case for Connecticut Background Connecticut prohibited the use of drugs or instruments to prevent conception, and the giving of assistance or counsel in their use. The laws in question had been enacted in 1879. Any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty ... right of freedom of speech and press includes the freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought, and freedom to teach. NAACP v Alabama (1958): The court protected the freedom of association and privacy in one's associati...

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... victim. I believe the laws against victimless crimes are not direct threats to the privacy of individuals. On the contrary the laws help protect the existing right we have as individual and help assure a civilized society. In criminalizing certain acts, society makes a judgment that there can be no privacy interest in those acts ... . These acts of self abuse are destructive. These crimes erode the systems of ethics" and morals in the fabric of our society. I must point out that while I agree with many of the laws against victimless crimes I do not agree ... with them all. A few of the l...

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... our nations streets, from attacking the frontline in The Columbian drug fields, to making numerous drug busts in urban cities across the United States. However, these harsh but well- intentioned laws have been accused of infringing on America's freedom. Some believe the people have a natural right to use drugs if the perfectly well chose to do so. Although the war on ... a drug offender or abuser, we could give the offender one year in prison, one year of residential drug treatment, and three years of supervised probation and outpatient drug treatment. . The laws that regulate drug cont...

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