...liberty of the unmarried. For the Court, Justice William Brennan, Jr., wrote, italicizing the key word, "If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of an individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so...

...case of Eisenstadt v. Baird, where the court specified that the new right was an individual right: "If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of an individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so...

...conclusion. The link that clinched the judicial future was forged by a single sentence of Justice Brennan: "if the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual ... to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person...

...contraceptives was successfully challenged by a single person. "It is true," Brennan wrote for the Court, "that in Griswold the right of privacy in question inhered in the marital relationship." But "if the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single,...

...theme in recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court. In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Court said: "[T]he marital couple is not an independent entity...individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup."62 A few decisions still employ the rhetoric of family solidarity.63 But if one attends to...

...Contraception, it stated, concerns "the most intimate of human activities and relationships"12; a couple is "an association of two individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup."13 The Constitution's promise of privacy protects not only human relationships but also the...

...be prohibited, a ban on distribution to unmarried persons would be equally impermissible. It is true that in Griswold the right of privacy in question...separate intellectual and emotional make-up. If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted...

...be prohibited, a ban on distribution to unmarried persons would be equally impermissible. It is true that in Griswold the right of privacy in question...own, but an association of two individuals each with separate intellectual and emotional makeup. If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right...

...credible, however, he found himself speaking in a language with contractualist overtones. It is true that in Griswold the right of privacy in question...not an independent entity with a mind and heart of Court Crisis of the 1930s to allow himself to admit the extent to which he was engaged in the Jacksonian...

...protection to unmarried persons in another birth control case, the Court changed its tune. "[T]he married couple is not an independent entity with a mind and...individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional make-up."26 In a perceptive analysis of Supreme Court cases involving the parent-child relationship,...