From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 04:06:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Ninth Amendment and privacy??
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grendel@netaxs.com (Michael Handler):
> control to anyone except married couples. The Supremes said that this was 
> an undue invasion of privacy, and that there *was* a Constitutional right 
> to privacy. They neglected to specify exactly where it was, though. ;) 
> However, they suggested that it was held somewhere under the Ninth Amendment.

Amendment IX                                          (1791)

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

C'est tout. Sounds very clearly like a right to privacy to me ;-)

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