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To: Double Tap
That, IMO, fits right into what the ninth was suppose to accomplish. That it is a right held by the people that is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

Not exactly. According to the Ninth Amendment it may or may not be a right. It doesn't say yes, and it doesn't say no. There may be a right to privacy. There may not. The Ninth Amendment offers no support to either position. It leaves it to the states and the public to work out for themselves.

26 posted on 07/02/2003 12:20:02 PM PDT by Snuffington
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To: Snuffington
"If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for through this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. " Washington's Farewell Address 9-19-1796

Sounds like Washington would have required a Constitutional Amendment to allow the government to invade privacy.
27 posted on 07/03/2003 3:51:14 AM PDT by steve50 (I don't know about being with "us", but I'm with the Constitution)
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