[Lunatic Fringe]

Griswold affirmed the belief of many that your rights go beyond the enumerated rights laid out in the Constitution. I don't know why there was any doubt of this fact, since it clearly says so in the 9th amendment.

[Sam Cree]

"Griswold affirmed the belief of many that your rights go beyond the enumerated rights laid out in the Constitution. I don't know why there was any doubt of this fact, since it clearly says so in the 9th amendment."

Nicely put, I think. The authors of the Constitution thought the same thing.

It's sometimes known as negative freedom, that our rights are not limited. OTOH, the powers of the government are limited specifically by the Constitution.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

The importance of the Griswold is that it opened the door for the right of privacy to be viewed by the Court as a substantice due process right, a right that derived from the Constitution. Roe traced itself back to Griswold. Justices like Scalia and Rehnquist generally reject the idea of substantive due process.

If Miers supports Griswold folks, this gal is another SDO.