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To: kech who wrote (256072)	10/18/2005 2:56:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572953

The word “privacy” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, though a number of Supreme Court opinions have held that the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments offer some constitutional backing for a right “to” (as opposed to an enumerated right “of”) privacy. American common law, however, recognizes several privacy-related causes of action (“torts”). In a 1960 California Law Review article, William Prosser proposed four torts as bases for alleging an invasion of privacy: While the word, privacy, may not appear in the Constitution, it is implicit in the amendments stated above. It is for that reason several states would not ratify the Constitution until the Bill of Rights was tacked on.....that's how important the role right to privacy has played in the development of this country. Furthermore, right to privacy is found in English common law, the source for the Constitution. There are people who oppose the USSC's invoking right to privacy when ruling on Roe vs Wade. Their opposition is short sighted and biased, and ignores how important right to privacy has been in the development of democracy in both Great Britain and the US.