This is kind of like the neocon argument that the Constitution does not specifically say you have a right to privacy, since it doesn’t use the word ‘privacy.’ This is the argument of an idiot. As Thom Hartmann and other Constitutional scholars have pointed out, ‘privacy’ in the late 18th century was a word associated with visiting the bathroom. A gentleman would excuse himself in those days for some ‘privacy’ in order to use the outhouse or the champerpot. Guaranteeing a ‘right to privacy’ back then would have been as ridiculous as a saying now that you have the right to take a crap and pee in private.

In fact, the Fourth Amendment clearly states that the American legal right to “be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” which has also been determined by Supreme Court decisions to be an incontrovertible ‘right to privacy,’ dimwit bubbleheads like Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding. (BTW, hypocrite Rushbo tried to claim a right to privacy for his medical records when he was under investigation for OxyContin abuse, so he can kiss my all-American, Jeffersonian Democrat, Constitution-understanding, freedom-loving, right-to-privacy ass.)

Fourth Amendment http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am4.html