PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Planned Parenthood, Equal Protection Clause, Suspect Classification
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Courts use the 14th amendment due process clause to apply the bill of rights to states using selective application. Yes: it is the thing essential for liberty and democracy (reynolds v. sims) No: san antonio v. rodiguez, tax dollars to fund school different dirstrict spend different money, argued on due process grounds children being denied education, Yes: roe v. wade; planned parenthood v. casey. Yes: loving v. va; obergefell v. hodges. Privacy i: the origins to the right of privacy. Early versus on a constitutional right to privacy. Summed up as the right to be let alone louis branches dissenting in obsestead v. Us: draws on his famous reiew orticle (1890) where privacy is said to be tied to freedom of beliefs & thoughts and intrusion into one"s privacy, case about wire-taping. First case to formally recognize a right to privacy. Not tied to the meaning of the word liberty .