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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... applied to the states as well, as revealed in the words of James Madison, who recognized in Federalist No. 45 that, in reserving certain unenumerated powers “to the States respectively, or to the people,” the Tenth Amendment he authored ...
... applied to the states as well, as revealed in the words of James Madison, who recognized in Federalist No. 45 that, in reserving certain unenumerated powers “to the States respectively, or to the people,” the Tenth Amendment he authored ...
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... applied not only to the newly created federal government , but also to the states , whose role had been reconceptualized within a federal constitutional framework . As discussed above , revolutionary - era state constitutions provided ...
... applied not only to the newly created federal government , but also to the states , whose role had been reconceptualized within a federal constitutional framework . As discussed above , revolutionary - era state constitutions provided ...
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... applied to a state defendant: The defendant's counsel rely, principally, on the 5th article of the Amendment to the Constitution of U. S., which contains this provision: “Nor shall any person be sub- ject for the same offense to be ...
... applied to a state defendant: The defendant's counsel rely, principally, on the 5th article of the Amendment to the Constitution of U. S., which contains this provision: “Nor shall any person be sub- ject for the same offense to be ...
Pagina 24
... applied to the state and federal governments equally. A similar conclusion was reached by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1823: “The defendant's counsel relied much the 5th Article of the amendment to the constitution of the United ...
... applied to the state and federal governments equally. A similar conclusion was reached by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1823: “The defendant's counsel relied much the 5th Article of the amendment to the constitution of the United ...
Pagina 26
... applied to the states. It is also interesting to note that several prominent members of the Thirty- Ninth Congress who debated the Fourteenth Amendment articulated their view that the privileges and immunities bestowed by the federal ...
... applied to the states. It is also interesting to note that several prominent members of the Thirty- Ninth Congress who debated the Fourteenth Amendment articulated their view that the privileges and immunities bestowed by the federal ...
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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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