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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
A constitutional right to privacy obviously cannot include the right to engage in private conduct which was condemned as criminal at the very time that the Constitution was ratified.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal discusses the limits of privacy rights in relation to historical laws.

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