Is the right to provacy explicitly granted in the Constitution?

Answer 1

you should read the constitution yourself and find out instead of trusting us on such a simple thing. it is only a few pages long!

Answer 2

The U. S. Constitution contains no express right to privacy. The Bill of Rights, however, reflects the concern of James Madison and other framers for protecting specific aspects of privacy, such as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3rd Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information. In addition, the Ninth Amendment states that the "enumeration of certain rights" in the Bill of Rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people." The meaning of the Ninth Amendment is elusive, but some persons (including Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.

Answer 3

Nope. It's in the penumbra of (Constitutional) rights identified by the US Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut.

Answer 4

While the federal right to privacy is a 'penumbral' right, many state constitutions include an explicit right to privacy.

Answer 5

No.

but I agree with Barry.... read it.

However..... what it 'says' in the Constitution, and what the courts have interpreted that as *meaning*, is often a whole different subject.

Richard