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We do not say that the governance of the
length and style of oneVs hair is necessarily
so fundamental as those substantive rights
already found implicit in the "liberty"
assurance of due process_ requiring a
compelling showing of the state before it may
be impaired. Yet _liberty_"__s_j_Ys to
_p_l_etg_protection if it enc_as_i_Q_Z
the riLL_ to do momentous act__leavi[Lq the
__er_with th(b_L__/___grsonal
9__gcts of our lives which have no direct
beari_onb!l_t; of other to _n'o their
libertz.._we think the founding fathers
understood themselves to have limited the
government's power to intrude into this
sphere of personal liberty_ by reserving some
powers to the people°
424 F.2d at 1284-85 (emphasis added).
The sampling of case law presented serves to indicate the
concern of members of the judiciary to protect the citizenry from
unauthorized infringement of unenumerated personal or human
rights° The Ninth Amendment contains discrete relevancy and
meaning of its ownf unshared and unnecessarily clouded by due
process analysis.
Co State Court Treatment.
In 1968 the Supreme Court of Hawaii, in an unprecedented de-
cision for that state, unanimously concluded that a general right
of privacy is one of the rights retained arid protected by the
Ninth Amendment° The Ninth Amendment was found to protect an
individual from a statute which, because it was overbroad,
stifled the fundamental right of privacy, when the end could be
more narrowly achieved° The statute made it unlawful for any
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