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Originally Posted by utabintarbo  No, it means you have mis-identified the meaning of "strict constructionism". Work on that, mmmkay?  |
So-called strict constructionists complain about court decisions that grant, for instance, a right to privacy because it's not in the constitution.
Bork, for instance, argued that the right to privacy “does not have any rooting in the Constitution” and “comes out of nowhere.”
Clarence Thomas: "...just like Justice Stewart, I can find neither in the Bill of Rights nor any part of the Constitution a general right of privacy, or as the Court terms it today, the liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions."
Stewart: "I could find no general right of privacy in the Bill of Rights, in any other part of the Constitution, or in any case ever before decided by this Court." (1965)