Discuss the implications of Griswold v. Connecticut for the Court's interpretation of privacy rights.

What will be an ideal response?


Until the landmark case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court had never legally codified the right to privacy. The Griswold decision argued that the right to privacy was implied in other liberties in the Bill of Rights. This case, which centered around the state's ability to regulate private couples' access to birth control, established a zone of privacy around every person in the United States, and found that government could not pass laws that encroached upon this zone.

Political Science

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Desegregation was accomplished through the use of

a. court decisions. c. laws. b. violent protests. d. military force.

Political Science

An example of goal displacement is:

a. Prioritizing family reunification over child well-being. b. Prioritizing job retention over worker safety. c. Prioritizing reductions in case load over clients’ health. d. All of these choices are examples of goal displacement.

Political Science

The interest group ______ inherent in American politics means that the implementation of a piece of legislation will generally differ greatly from the intentions of those who framed the legislation.

A. conservatism B. liberalism C. libertarianism D. statism

Political Science

Running an experiment using precisely the same procedures used in running the experiment previously is known as

A) exact replication. B) conceptual replication. C) systematic replication. D) identical replication.

Political Science