Question

The statutes whose constitutionality is involved in this appeal are 53−32 and 54−196 of the General Statutes of Connecticut. ... The former provides: Any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned. This law, however, operates directly on an intimate relation of husband and wife and their physician's role in one aspect of that relation ... [t]he First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion. ... The present case, then, concerns a relationship lying within the zone of privacy created by several fundamental constitutional guarantees. And it concerns a law which, in forbidding the use of contraceptives, rather than regulating their manufacture or sale, seeks to achieve its goals by means having a maximum destructive impact upon that relationship. Such a law cannot stand in light of the familiar principle, so often applied by this Court, that a governmental purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms. —From Supreme Court Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) The power of the Supreme Court demonstrated in the excerpt is based on which principle

Answer 1

The Supreme Court's power demonstrated in Griswold v. Connecticut is based on the principle of judicial review, where the Court protected the implied constitutional right to privacy.

Step-by-step explanation:

The power of the Supreme Court demonstrated in the excerpt from the Supreme Court opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) is based on the principle of judicial review, which allows the Court to interpret the Constitution and nullify laws that they find violate the Constitution. In this case, the Supreme Court found that the Connecticut statute prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the right to privacy, a liberty implied by the Constitution even though it is not explicitly stated. This right to privacy has since been a basis for overturning other laws and extending privacy protections in various contexts, such as in Roe v. Wade for abortion rights and Lawrence v. Texas concerning sexual relationships between consenting adults.