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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... fact , the Framers intended the opposite : a government limited to specific purposes , surrounded by a large realm of residual individual sover- eignty . The Federalists ultimately conceded the necessity of a bill of rights to as- suage ...
... fact , the Framers intended the opposite : a government limited to specific purposes , surrounded by a large realm of residual individual sover- eignty . The Federalists ultimately conceded the necessity of a bill of rights to as- suage ...
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... fact is that the plain language of most of the Bill of Rights declares liberty simpliciter. Accepting the plain lan- guage, combined with the undeniable import of the Supremacy Clause, leads to the conclusion that, whether or not it was ...
... fact is that the plain language of most of the Bill of Rights declares liberty simpliciter. Accepting the plain lan- guage, combined with the undeniable import of the Supremacy Clause, leads to the conclusion that, whether or not it was ...
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... fact that Barron had characterized the Bill of Rights as a list of privileges and immunities belonging to all United States citizens. The only possible way to justify the result in Slaughterhouse is to conclude that the Bill of Rights ...
... fact that Barron had characterized the Bill of Rights as a list of privileges and immunities belonging to all United States citizens. The only possible way to justify the result in Slaughterhouse is to conclude that the Bill of Rights ...
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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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