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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Examples of Griswold v. Connecticut in the following topics:

  • 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 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.

  • The Structure of the Government

    • Debate over the Virginia v.
    • However, the "Connecticut Compromise" (more popularly known as the "Great Compromise") proposed by Roger Sherman outlined a system of bicameral legislation that included both proportional and equal representation.
    • Furthermore, 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 the Constitution.

  • The Politics of Slavery

    • As a result of the very gradual approach taken by many states, New York did not free its last slaves until 1829, Rhode Island had 5 slaves still listed in the 1840 census, Pennsylvania's last slaves were freed in 1847, Connecticut did not completely abolish slavery until 1848, and slavery was not completely lifted in New Hampshire and New Jersey until the nationwide emancipation in 1865.
    • Dred Scott was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v.

  • France and Spain in the Revolutionary War

    • In July 1781, Rochambeau's force left Rhode Island, marching across Connecticut to join Washington on the Hudson River at Dobbs Ferry, New York.

  • The Disputed Election of 2000

    • Al Gore unanimously won the Democratic nomination at the Democratic National Convention, and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was nominated for Vice President.
    • In the highly controversial decision Bush v.

  • The Beginnings of the Labor Movement

    • In Commonwealth v.
    • Thomas Skidmore from Connecticut was the outspoken organizer of the Working Men’s Party, which lodged a radical protest against the exploitation of workers that accompanied industrialization.