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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... granting constitutional language broadly . 14 The Bill of Rights thus erects a constitutional fence around governmental power by cordoning off areas of individual liberty that are immune from gov- ernmental intrusion . Although the ...
... granting constitutional language broadly . 14 The Bill of Rights thus erects a constitutional fence around governmental power by cordoning off areas of individual liberty that are immune from gov- ernmental intrusion . Although the ...
Pagina 14
... 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 . ” Taking the Ninth and Tenth Amendments together , the following principles of ...
... 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 . ” Taking the Ninth and Tenth Amendments together , the following principles of ...
Pagina 15
... granted to the federal government, it is reserved to the states or to the people; and therefore (3) there are necessarily certain rights reserved to the people that neither federal nor state government can take away. The principal idea ...
... granted to the federal government, it is reserved to the states or to the people; and therefore (3) there are necessarily certain rights reserved to the people that neither federal nor state government can take away. The principal idea ...
Pagina 18
... granting states the ability to enforce the fundamental maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.38 The further one gets from the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, however, the broader the understanding of police ...
... granting states the ability to enforce the fundamental maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.38 The further one gets from the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, however, the broader the understanding of police ...
Pagina 22
... granted to the United States and the people of the United States . This grant operated as a further limitation upon the powers of the States , so that now the governments of the States possess all the powers of the Parliament of England ...
... granted to the United States and the people of the United States . This grant operated as a further limitation upon the powers of the States , so that now the governments of the States possess all the powers of the Parliament of England ...
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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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