Word: encroaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which held that a constitutional right of privacy protects married couples from prosecution for using contraceptives. "Sodomy is probably offensive to the vast majority of people," wrote Judge Hughes, but that is "not sufficient reason for the state to encroach upon the liberty of married persons in their private conduct...
...think that they have the right to encroach upon the schools, the rules and regulations. I get enraged when I see a man like a dean of a university being held literally a captive in his own office. I don't think these kids understand war. All they know is that people are being killed. So what? There are people being killed on the highways, and what do we do about that? Look at the crime rate today, and what do we do about that...