[gondramB]

>>Look at the 4th and 9th amendments then tell me there is no right to privacy. The constitution doesn't give Americans rights, it limits our government, and nowhere does the constitution give government the right to spy on its citizens.<<

The constitution does explicitly guarantee the continuation of some rights that the framers thought might be threatened. Some of those rights weren't protected or observed under the British system so you could argue they were "given" by the constitution. But I get your point.

[RHINO369]

The origin constitution had no rights, and many of the framers thought it was dangerous to include a list of rights because it might be assumed that anything not on that list wasn't a right. The Bill of Rights was only passed to insure the new Constitution would pass 3/4 of the states. In the end the framers were right, many assume if it is not clearly enumerated its not a right, when thats simply not the case. Unless the constitution gives the government a right to regulated something, it is unconstitutional to regulate that act.