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Article: Johnson, John W. Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right to Privacy.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2005
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Johnson, John W. Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right to Privacy Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 266 pp., $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1377-3 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1378-1 paper Publication Date: September 2005
Evolving trends in American constitutional law sometimes do not gain full legitimacy until they become the subject of what proves to be a seminal U.S. Supreme Court decision. Such was the role that Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) played in the rise of the right of privacy to established doctrine. This well researched, clearly written history of the case by John W. Johnson, an established constitutional scholar, is a ...