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The Right of Privacy and Freedom of the Press

Emerson, Thomas
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As an independent concept the right of privacy is a relative latecomer to the system of individual rights. It made its first appearance in American law as a tort, a civil suit for damages or an injunction to protect against an unwarranted invasion by others of the vague "right to be let alone."
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/2123