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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... The Structure of Liberty : Justice and the Rule of Law ( 2000 ) and Restoring the Lost Constitution : The Presumption of Liberty ( 2003 ) , have begun a substantial new movement in originalist constitutional scholar- XV Acknowledgments.
... The Structure of Liberty : Justice and the Rule of Law ( 2000 ) and Restoring the Lost Constitution : The Presumption of Liberty ( 2003 ) , have begun a substantial new movement in originalist constitutional scholar- XV Acknowledgments.
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... justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue . ” 17 While the ma- jority may indeed rule on many issues , there is a large ...
... justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue . ” 17 While the ma- jority may indeed rule on many issues , there is a large ...
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... Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [sic], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Bless- ings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United ...
... Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [sic], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Bless- ings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United ...
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... justice, as they have been developed under our republican institutions.”42 Similarly, W. P. Prentice's 1894 treatise devoted ex- clusively to the subject of police powers is entitled Police Powers Arising Under the Law of Overruling ...
... justice, as they have been developed under our republican institutions.”42 Similarly, W. P. Prentice's 1894 treatise devoted ex- clusively to the subject of police powers is entitled Police Powers Arising Under the Law of Overruling ...
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... justice . ... That this view of the sub- ject is giving full effect to the seventh amendment of the constitution, is not only deducible from the general intent, but from the express wording of the article re- ferred to. Had the terms ...
... justice . ... That this view of the sub- ject is giving full effect to the seventh amendment of the constitution, is not only deducible from the general intent, but from the express wording of the article re- ferred to. Had the terms ...
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4 Marriage | 65 |
5 Sex | 102 |
6 Reproduction | 131 |
7 Medical Care | 151 |
8 Food Drugs and Alcohol | 178 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 281 |
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