The Pelican Brief
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:07:04
Everything is in place.
:07:07
All the money must be there
when I arrive in Zurich.

:07:10
It will be there
if the job is finished.

:07:13
It will be finished.
:07:21
-May I help you?
-I'd like to order room service.

:07:24
-What would you like?
-Coffee...

:07:26
...scrambled eggs, whole-wheat toast
and orange juice, please.

:07:29
It'll be about 15 minutes.
:07:31
When we substitute threat
for an argument...

:07:34
...violence for principle,
we allow our passion...

:07:37
...to overcome our capacity for reason.
:07:39
Passion and self-interest
are threats to liberty...

:07:43
...which brings us
to Bowers against Hardwick.

:07:47
A police officer entered Mr. Hardwick's
apartment to serve him a warrant...

:07:52
...for an unpaid violation
for drinking in public.

:07:55
They caught him with an open beer.
:07:57
When he entered
Mr. Hardwick's bedroom...

:08:00
...he found him in bed with a man.
:08:03
The officer arrested Hardwick...
:08:05
...for violating Georgia's statute
which outlaws sodomy.

:08:08
Even though Georgia dropped the case...
:08:10
...Hardwick challenged
the constitutionality of the statute.

:08:14
Now, what was his claim?
:08:17
-That it violates the right of privacy.
-Why?

:08:21
He's got the right to do
as he pleases in his home.

:08:25
But what if he decided to sell drugs
at his home or engage in child abuse?

:08:31
Those actions don't fit
within the right of privacy.

:08:34
The court, beginning with Griswold...
:08:36
...has limited the right of privacy
to actions which are intimate...

:08:39
...which are deeply personal,
which allow us to control our lives...

:08:44
...to define who we are.
:08:45
But is that a constitutional claim?
There's no...

:08:48
...right to define oneself
written into the Constitution.

:08:51
It's not even in the Bill of Rights.
:08:53
If the State of Georgia can regulate
Hardwick's sexuality...

:08:56
...engaged in private with consenting
adults, Hardwick cannot be free.


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