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405 U.S. 438 (1972).
277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting).
It must be acknowledged at the outset that the Court has not openly embraced a right of personhood that incorporates liberty and privacy, prompting one commentator to observe that “it does not distinguish between privacy and autonomy and may be treating them both as aspects of ‘the right to be let alone.’” Louis Henkin, “Privacy and Autonomy,” Columbia Law Review (1974), 74: 1410–1433.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Peter H. Nidditch, ed., (Oxford: Cambridge University Press, 1975), Book II, Chapter 27, § 26.
For an important philosophical discussion of this point see Harry G. Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” Journal of Philosophy (1971), 68: 5–20.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 159–176.
Laurence H. Tribe, American Constitutional Law, 2nd ed., (Mineola, N.Y: Foundation Press, 1988), p. 1308. Laurence Tribe’s Chapter on “Rights of Privacy and Personhood” is an outstanding resource worthy of careful study.
For a detailed historical account of the events leading up to the litigation in Griswold see David J. Garrow, Liberty & Sexuality (New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1994), Ch. 4.
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
262 U.S. 390 (1923).
268 U.S. 510 (1925).
262 U.S. 390, 399 (1923).
381 U.S. 479, 486–487 (1965).
381 U.S. 479, 486–487 (1965).
381 U.S. 479, 491, (1965) Goldberg, J., concurring.
381 U.S. 479, 495, (1965) citing Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 (1944).
See, e.g., Henkin, note 3.
Randy E. Barnett, “Reconceiving the Ninth Amendment,” Cornell L. Rev. (1988), 74: 1–42, at 34–35.
381 U.S. 479, 530, (1965) Steward, J., dissenting. For a contrary assessment see Barnett, note 19.
Even the Catholic journal Commonweal observed that “The entire round of court struggles was unnecessary, a dubious tribute to the power of a determined minority to impose their moral values on others.” Commonweal, June 25, 1965, pp. 427–428.
This dramatic change in attitude is pointed out in David J. Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality (New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1994).
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(2002). Constitutional Liberty and Privacy: The Supreme Court and the Physician-Patient Relationship. In: Strange Bedfellows. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46849-2_6
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