Question

Explain how the Constitution protects the right to privacy. Then, describe how the Supreme Court's ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut upheld that right.

Answer 1

Answer: The right to privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution. Nevertheless, several Supreme Court rulings have confirmed it as a fundamental human right and therefore protected by the 9th Amendment.

The Griswold case (1965) overturned laws against birth control, judging them in breach of the right to marital privacy.

Explanation:

Justice William O. Douglas stated that constitutional protections such as the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment supported the idea of  aright to privacy. Justice Arthur Goldberg based his ruling in the Ninth Amendment , and both Justice Byron White and Justice John Marshall Harlan II held that privacy is preserved by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.