Chapter 8

Why you have a constitutional right to privacy even though privacy isn’t in the Constitution

What you need to learn


How has the court established the right to privacy as an implicit right using the enumerated rights of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, & 14th, Amendments?

Cases:

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)

Griswold v. Connecticut (1925)

Roe v. Wade *overturned by: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)

Need to know:

implicit right

enumerated right

penumbra of explicit rights

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