XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.atheism
It is not expressly stated or enumerated, but it is directly and necessarily implied by enumerated rights:
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.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
There most definitely is a right to privacy found in the Constitution. It's not an absolute right, but it is there.
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