Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!XEROX.COM!Hoffman.es From: Hoffman.es@XEROX.COM Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Privacy Rights amendment Message-ID: <12226107824.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:36:07 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226107824.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:36:07 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:15:47 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Hoffman.es@xerox.com Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: 14 Jul 86 09:52:11 PDT (Monday) From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.COM Subject: Privacy Rights amendment To: "Keith F. Lynch" Enumeration of minorities is a never-ending, impossible, and unnecessary task. Instead of prohibiting discrimination of the basis of every conceivable irrelevant personal attribute, I'd like to see employers adopt a policy stating something like, "Only job-related characteristics shall be considered in hiring, firing, and promotion decisions." A small handful of universities have such statements in place of the usual laundry-list of prohibited discriminations. I don't think we need a "gay rights amendment" to the Constitution. We need a PRIVACY RIGHTS amendment! The right to privacy which the Supreme Court has been struggling to define (and to which they've now stated an abhorrent limit) is nowhere explicit in the Constitution. I'd like to hear peoples' suggestions for the wording of a good privacy rights amendment. For comparison, here's Article IV: 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. -- Rodney Hoffman -------