Harry Blackmun: Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick

Glossary

• the Amish a religious sect noted for its members’ separation from modern society
• consensual by mutual agreement
• Henry IV English king who ruled from 1399 to 1413
• Justice Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935), noted Supreme Court justice, who served on the Court from 1902 to 1932
• Justice Jackson Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954), Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954
• sodomy specifically, anal sex; more generally, any form of sexual activity deemed immoral or unnatural by prevailing opinion