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The right to privacy was not enshrined as one of the fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution; many of the founders, like John Adams, believed that outlining rights and guarantees in the Constitution would downplay and possibly even impugn anything that wasn't guaranteed in writing. But suppose that the founders anticipated situations in which the government (or some other entitiy) sought to pry into the private lives of individuals, and guaranteed privacy in the Constitution (subject to exclusions for public safety, such as court orders).

What happens next? How does such a provision in the Constitution affect future American political, social, and economic growth?
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