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In Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”
1. Discuss the meaning and implications of Griswold’s penumbras and emanations
2. Describe the legal basis for an unenumerated right that might be located within these purported constitutional regions.
1. Discuss the meaning and implications of Griswold’s penumbras and emanations?
penumbra is a Latin word meaning a shadow or darkness. Griswold's used this word to show the federal constitutional fixed rights to privacy and marital partners finding strange to get right to use contraception.
Emanations mean the controversial to the right of privacy. Specific granting has to be given by Bill of Rights rather than the unspecified rights.
2. Describe the legal basis for an unenumerated right that might be located within these purported constitutional regions.
The right to privacy is not mentioned clearly in the constitution. Griswold v. Connecticut stated that the married couple has the right and freedom to use contraception. so he discovered the word 'Penumbras' to describe the right of privacy for the use of contraception to be included in the Bills of Rights. The right of privacy should be illuminated in the Bill. The right should not be powerless. It should be broad enough. The constitutional rights should not have shadows. The Ninth Amendment decided that the list of fundamental rights must be included by the states or federal government to protect from infringement.