Does the Constitution provide a right to privacy?

Question

PLease explain answer. thank you

Answer 1

A very good question. Try this article for a start:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html

And google the terms constitution and privacy rights.

My take on your question is that some aspects of privacy are protected by the constitution (beliefs, possessions, home, self-incrimination), but others are open to debate (e.g., electronic communication).

Answer 2

A right to privacy was created by the Supreme Court, therefore while not directly in the US Constitution, does exist by judicial determination. The key case is Griswold v. Conn and in law school we all learned what is a penumbra.

Here Justice Douglas in 1965 laid out that the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights created a zone of privacy:

"The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. Various guarantees create zones of privacy."

So there is no specific guarantee of a right to privacy in the US Constitution, but the rights granted and the areas they effect do create a zone of privacy.

I am also assuming your question revolved around the US Constitution, I believe some State Constitutions do have a right to privacy included among their rights.

Answer 3

The right to privacy is institutionalized in the Constitution to provide protection to the people so that their individual activities will not be interfered with by government without any valid reason.

Answer 4

The Constitution provides for controls from unlawful search and seizures (4th amendment). If the Government is unable to search you or your belongings anytime it wants, then you have a right to privacy.

The answer above is completely wrong.

Answer 5

There is no right to privacy.

There is no constitutional right to privacy.

Like "the separation of church and state" it is an imaginary right created by those who are unfamiliar with our most important document, or who simply don't care what they say if it serves their purposes.