Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 1 oct. 2008 - 304 pagini divIn the opening chapter of this book, Elizabeth Price Foley writes, “The slow, steady, and silent subversion of the Constitution has been a revolution that Americans appear to have slept through, unaware that the blessings of liberty bestowed upon them by the founding generation were being eroded.” She proceeds to explain how, by abandoning the founding principles of limited government and individual liberty, we have become entangled in a labyrinth of laws that regulate virtually every aspect of behavior and limit what we can say, read, see, consume, and do. Foley contends that the United States has become a nation of too many laws where citizens retain precious few pockets of individual liberty. With a close analysis of urgent constitutional questions—abortion, physician-assisted suicide, medical marijuana, gay marriage, cloning, and U.S. drug policy—Foley shows how current constitutional interpretation has gone astray. Without the bias of any particular political agenda, she argues convincingly that we need to return to original conceptions of the Constitution and restore personal freedoms that have gradually diminished over time./DIV |
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... first book. Sincere thanks are also owed to a corps of energetic research as- sistants, including Alex Alvarez, Sheila Janati, Brenda Kuhns, and Peter Wizenberg, as well as the ideas, comments, and suggestions of Tom Baker, Randy ...
... first book. Sincere thanks are also owed to a corps of energetic research as- sistants, including Alex Alvarez, Sheila Janati, Brenda Kuhns, and Peter Wizenberg, as well as the ideas, comments, and suggestions of Tom Baker, Randy ...
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... first article that “all government of right originates from the people, is founded in compact only, and instituted solely for the good of the whole.”4 The revolutionary constitutions of Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New ...
... first article that “all government of right originates from the people, is founded in compact only, and instituted solely for the good of the whole.”4 The revolutionary constitutions of Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New ...
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... first—ignoring constituents' desires—was controlled exclusively by collective popular sovereignty through the power to vote unresponsive officials out of office. The second threat—exceeding legitimate powers—also could be corrected by ...
... first—ignoring constituents' desires—was controlled exclusively by collective popular sovereignty through the power to vote unresponsive officials out of office. The second threat—exceeding legitimate powers—also could be corrected by ...
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... first-hand by American colonists, who were subjected to numerous acts of Parliament that were considered violative of individual liberty.17 The Framers understood that all citizens may find themselves among the minority on some issue ...
... first-hand by American colonists, who were subjected to numerous acts of Parliament that were considered violative of individual liberty.17 The Framers understood that all citizens may find themselves among the minority on some issue ...
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... first eight amendments. It also is clear from the Tenth Amendment that the powers not granted to the United States were “reserved to the States” and that a subset of these residual powers were understood as reserved “to the people ...
... first eight amendments. It also is clear from the Tenth Amendment that the powers not granted to the United States were “reserved to the States” and that a subset of these residual powers were understood as reserved “to the people ...
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The Harm Principle | 41 |
4 Marriage | 65 |
5 Sex | 102 |
6 Reproduction | 131 |
7 Medical Care | 151 |
8 Food Drugs and Alcohol | 178 |
Notes | 199 |
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