Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 7-2 Decision Douglas for the court: "The... cases suggest that specific guarantees in the bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. Various guarantees create zones of privacy. The right of association contained in the penumbra of the First Amendment is one, as we have seen. The Third Amendment, in its prohibition against the quatering of soldiers "in any house" in time of peace without the consent of the owner, is another facet of that privacy. The Fourth Amendment explicitly affirms the 'right of the people to be secure in their persons, hosues, papers, and effects, against unerasonable searches and seizures.' The Fifth Amendment, in its Self-Incrimination Clause, enables the citizen to create a zone of privacy which government may not force him to surrender to his detriment. THe Ninth AMendment provides: 'the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people'... The present case, then concerns a relationship lying within the zone of privacy by several fundamental constitutional guarentees. And it concerns a law which...seeks to achieve its goals by means of having maximum destructive impact upon a relationship. Such a law cannot stand in the light of the familiar prinicple, so often applied by this Court, that a 'government purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broad and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms...privacy." Phew my fingers hurt.
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