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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... exercises of governmental power? Should we re- strain our neighbor's liberty because she engages in an activity we consider icky, gross, or just plain wrong? This book will argue that the answer is no because public morality–based laws ...
... exercises of governmental power? Should we re- strain our neighbor's liberty because she engages in an activity we consider icky, gross, or just plain wrong? This book will argue that the answer is no because public morality–based laws ...
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... exercise individual liberty were forcibly ex- tracted from an omnipotent monarch. In its place, they substituted a remark- able new model of government in which the people themselves were sovereign, relinquishing only those portions of ...
... exercise individual liberty were forcibly ex- tracted from an omnipotent monarch. In its place, they substituted a remark- able new model of government in which the people themselves were sovereign, relinquishing only those portions of ...
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... exercise of governmental power and , ipso facto , zones of individ- ual liberty beyond the reach of governmental power . Indeed , even ardent Fed- eralist Alexander Hamilton acknowledged , in Federalist No. 78 , the need for meaningful ...
... exercise of governmental power and , ipso facto , zones of individ- ual liberty beyond the reach of governmental power . Indeed , even ardent Fed- eralist Alexander Hamilton acknowledged , in Federalist No. 78 , the need for meaningful ...
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... exercises of collective popular sovereignty did not infringe upon the realm of residual individual rights . As Richard Henry Lee expressed it , " [ T ] he good people of the U. States in their late generous contest , contended for free ...
... exercises of collective popular sovereignty did not infringe upon the realm of residual individual rights . As Richard Henry Lee expressed it , " [ T ] he good people of the U. States in their late generous contest , contended for free ...
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... exercise these legitimate powers . There is ample evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels ...
... exercise these legitimate powers . There is ample evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels ...
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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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