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Originally posted by 2001frontier:
One thing that I found laughable was Thomas' statement about him not finding a right to privacy in the Constitution. Huh? I like Thomas as a justice, but I think he fucked up on this one.
Actually, I think he is right.

There is nothing in the Constitution that ever says the word, "privacy."

The Constitution outlines what the Government can do, not what the American people can do.

You don't really see anything about Rights until the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.

Then, in Amendments 9 and 10, privacy is referred to in a back-handed way . . .

Amendment 9: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

In other words, the Constitution lays out, specifically, what the Governemnt can tell the American people they can and cannot do. Everything else that isn't specified, is up to the States and the people.

Including privacy . . .
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