Chapter 12: Due Process Ascendant

Griswold v Connecticut

The right to privacy includes marital and sexual privacy as expressed in limitations by the state to regulate the use of contraception (________, 38 U.S. 479 (1965)) and abortion (Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973))

valid warrant

Whether the search is unconstitutional depends first on whether it proceeds on the basis of a(n) ________ issued by a magistrate or, if there is no warrant, the search is reasonable under all the circumstances.

The two provisions that would have the most far-ranging effects are both in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment

"No State shall deny to any person due process of law or equal protection of the laws."

Slaughterhouse Cases

The __________________ held that the amendment barred discrimination only against freedmen (emancipated slaves), not against the general population.

Civil Rights Cases

The _____________held the Reconstruction Amendments to a narrow scope of statutes that would eradicate slavery and not broader acts of discrimination against former slaves.

exclusionary rule

The ____________ is an American invention that requires the courts to exclude all evidence that is seized in the course of an unconstitutional search of papers, persons, or residential or business premises.

Fourth Amendment

The root of the principle of privacy is the_________________.