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The home is about more than property -
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Property, the home, and Carpenter v. United States -
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Democracy and the privacy of communications (1967) -
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Orin Kerr: trespass was never the exclusive Fourth Amendment test (2012) -
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Protecting the nation’s private homes by policing the public sphere -
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The postal network is a liminal space between public and private -
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Secrecy versus privacy (re: abortion in Ireland) -
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Lesson from the last week of my first online class: don’t try to duplicate the in-person experience -
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Science, Religion, and Temperance: pamphlets from 1880 -
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Morton Horwitz on the public-private distinction (1982) -
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The Radical Remedy in Social Science (1887): Eugenics -
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The form of letters forces relationships -
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Henry Hitchcock considers privacy and telegrams (1879) -
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“The Adulteration of Intelligence” (1883) -
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Attacks on government related to the telegraph in the nineteenth century -
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What Place for Family Privacy? (1999)
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FOIA-like Pursuits
Pursuing “freedom of information” requests to, and responses from, state governments.

The home is about more than property
In American law, the home is a sacred space. This sanctity is deeply connected to old the English common law and the high value placed on private property—but the special nature of the home in the United States goes further than mere property rights.

Democracy and the privacy of communications (1967)
In 1967, President Johnson’s Crime Commission investigated electronic surveillance and concluded that the state of the law was “intolerable.”

Morton Horwitz on the public-private distinction (1982)
Legal historian Morton Horwitz wrote, “The distinction between public and private realms arose out of a double movement in modern political and legal thought.” He concluded that the distinction was breaking down as “private institutions were acquiring coercive power that had formerly been reserved to governments.”

“Women and Pockets” (1885)
“The straights to which helpless woman has been subjected by the absence of pockets in her gowns have wrung from her many complaints that have availed her nothing.”

The telegraph and the domestic home
“American District Telegraph Company was originally conceptualized as a business service, but it quickly began to sell itself as a service for the home as well.”
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