Griswold v. Connecticut

(noun)

A 1965 landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy; the case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives, and by a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy".

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  • Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey

    • The pill became an even more favored and socially acceptable means of birth control in 1965 when the Supreme Court decided the case of Griswold v.
    • Connecticut.
    • The landmark Supreme Court case Griswold v.
    • Connecticut affirmed women's right to use birth control.

  • The Right to Privacy

    • This was first recognized by several Supreme Court Justices in Griswold v.
    • Connecticut, a 1965 decision protecting a married couple's rights to contraception.
    • It was recognized again in 1973 Roe v.
    • This was first recognized by several Supreme Court Justices in Griswold v.
    • It was recognized again in 1973 Roe v.

  • Liberty

    • Supreme Court decision Griswold v.
    • Connecticut established that liberties relating to personal relationships, such as marriage, have a unique primacy of place in the hierarchy of freedoms.

  • The Sexual Revolution

    • Birth control was legalized following the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v.
    • Connecticut in 1965, while the Roe v.
    • Even by 1965, birth control was illegal in some U.S. states, including Connecticut and New York.

  • Women's Rights after Suffrage

    • Supreme Court case Griswold v.
    • Connecticut, which legalized birth control in the United States.

  • The Warren Court

    • Brown v.
    • Brown v.
    • Gideon v.
    • In other cases, the Court also ruled that the Constitution protects a general right to privacy (Griswold v.
    • Connecticut) and it established that public schools cannot have official prayer (Engel v.

  • The Ninth Amendment

    • Subsequent to Griswold, some judges have tried to use the Ninth Amendment to justify judicially enforcing rights that are not enumerated.
    • For example, the District Court that heard the case of Roe v.

  • Amending the Constitution

    • To protect the Constitution from hasty alteration, the framers of the Constitution wrote Article V.
    • To protect the Constitution from hasty alteration, the framers wrote Article V .
    • The Great Compromise (also called the Connecticut Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
    • Thus, Article V of the US Constitution, ratified in 1788, prohibited any constitutional amendments before 1808 which would affect the foreign slave trade, the tax on slave trade, or the direct taxation on provisions of the constitution.

  • The Election of 1888

    • Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest, losing only Connecticut and New Jersey, but carried the swing states of New York and Indiana to achieve a majority of the electoral vote.
    • The first, that of 1824, saw John Quincy Adams elected by the House, the second occurred just 12 years earlier in 1876, while the fourth would occur 112 years later in the year 2000 when Bush v.

  • The U.S. Constitution

    • Debate over the Virginia v.
    • However, the "Connecticut Compromise" proposed by Roger Sherman outlined a system of bicameral legislation that included both proportional and equal representation.
    • The Connecticut Compromise set the tone of the rest of the Convention's activity: bargaining among various delegates to balance disparate interests and ideologies to form what would become the Constitution of 1788.