Privilege Communcation

Arizona

In ine United States, we have certain privileged communications. Are these communications garunteed by the American Bill of Rights or is it merely a tradition upheld by various court rulings. I believe that the latter is the case.

I need this to be made very clear.

Ocasta said:

Arizona

In ine United States, we have certain privileged communications. Are these communications garunteed by the American Bill of Rights or is it merely a tradition upheld by various court rulings. I believe that the latter is the case.

I need this to be made very clear.

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My response:

"Privileged Communications" are not "tradition". Traditions are not laws, and we are a country of laws. Privileged Communications are either Constitutional, or created by the United States Supreme Court.

However, it also depends upon the type of "communication" you're concerned about - - which you never identified; e.g., attorney/client, or doctor/patient, or priest/penitent, or spouse/spouse.

Which one were you interested in knowing more about?

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I'm concerned primarily with Attorney and Client.

I know that they rely on common law, but do they clasify as an actualy "right"? Or are they just, as the word says, a privilege given to us by individual states?