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Article: Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy. By John W. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xiii, 266. $15.95.)
This reviewer still remembers the day he first learned as an undergraduate student of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut case. The professor in a political science course opened a class meeting by saying that "he had taken the Bill of Rights into a dark room, repeatedly, and never had he ever seen an emanation coming from it, nor a penumbra around it!" He plunged the class right into the controversial language of Justice William O. Douglas's opinion for the Court, locating the right of ...