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anigbrowl "the US Constitution needs amending to create an explicit right to privacy" Actually it shouldn't. U.S. Constitution, Amendment 9: "The enumeration
by ds9 13y ago
anigbrowl "the US Constitution needs amending to create an explicit right to privacy"
Actually it shouldn't. U.S. Constitution, Amendment 9:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." [1]
If this had had a good-faith interpretation in US constitutional law, many decisions would have been more favorable to individual citizens.
It's not the words that are decisive, it's the cultural willingness to honor them.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
- rayiner 13y agoThe 9th amendment just says the Constitutions enumeration of rights isn't exhaustive. That doesn't mean that anything you want to call a "right" exists just because it isn't mentioned in the Constitution. You still have to show its existence some other way. Typically, this is by showing that the right existed historically. No general right to privacy has existed historically, at least not in America or England.