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The Right to Privacy
"The Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from government infringement" by the Ninth Amendment. This quote, from Justice Arthur Goldberg's concurrence in Griswold v. Connecticut, affirms that privacy is a protected right, although that word does not appear in the Constitution. Griswold invalidated a Connecticut law that forbade the use or encouragement of contraceptives.
Griswold v. Connecticut, concurring opinion of Justice Goldberg and Chief Justice Brennan, June 1, 1965, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States |