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and some of you noddling--whatever that is--
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so I know you get that notion.
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In fact, much of our constitutional system,
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if you've taken any kind of Con Law here or basic political science,
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you know that much of our constitutional system
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turns on protecting the private sphere from intrusive state action.
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Yet, let us pause for a moment.
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Roll your minds back to high school or Yale history classes,
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and remember the extraordinary range a number of times that
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the U.S. Government has been quick to leap into citizen's private lives.
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In fact, public officials
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have long taxed, regulated, prohibited,