caa a22 4500 38636687X CHVBK 20180307111938.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800019174 doi S0021875800019174 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800019174 Cohan A. S. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Commerce, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, LA1 4YG, England The State in the Bedroom: What Some Adults May Not Do Privately After Hardwick v Bowers [Elektronische Daten] [A. S. Cohan] The development and evolution since 1965 of a legally recognized right of privacy through decisions reached by the Supreme Court in the United States may be seen as evidence of one of two things. It represents either the Supreme Court's further usurpation of the authority of legislatures by its expansion of rights — areas never intended by the framers of the Constitution — or it demonstrates the creativity and sensitivity of Justices of the Court in finally making explicit what has been implicit in the broad language of the Constitution, namely, that a right of privacy has always belonged to the citizen. Whichever position one holds, there may be little doubt that the Court's excursion into this previously uncharted territory, with its subsequent "stops” along the journey at questions of contraception, abortion and, of concern in this essay, "unnatural” sexual acts, has given rise to considerable controversy and, in some instances, confusion. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-04), 41-62 0021-8758 23:1<41 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800019174 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800019174 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cohan A. S. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Commerce, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, LA1 4YG, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-04), 41-62 0021-8758 23:1<41 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge