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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... nature and lost their original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the ...
... nature and lost their original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the ...
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... nature : those in power prefer to employ their power in a way that furthers their own political ends . The inherent human tendency — a ten- dency of which the Framers were well aware — is to expand power once held and to use it a way ...
... nature : those in power prefer to employ their power in a way that furthers their own political ends . The inherent human tendency — a ten- dency of which the Framers were well aware — is to expand power once held and to use it a way ...
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... nature of well ordered civil society , that every holder of property , however absolute and unqualified may be his title , holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated , that it shall not be inju- rious to ...
... nature of well ordered civil society , that every holder of property , however absolute and unqualified may be his title , holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated , that it shall not be inju- rious to ...
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... the states individually. The provision is general in its nature and unrestricted in its terms; and the 6th article of the Constitution declares that the Constitution shall be the supreme law of The Morality of American Law 23.
... the states individually. The provision is general in its nature and unrestricted in its terms; and the 6th article of the Constitution declares that the Constitution shall be the supreme law of The Morality of American Law 23.
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... nature and object of these articles? They do not contain, from be- ginning to end, a grant of power anywhere. On the contrary, they are all restrictions of power. They constitute the bill of rights, a bill of rights for the protection ...
... nature and object of these articles? They do not contain, from be- ginning to end, a grant of power anywhere. On the contrary, they are all restrictions of power. They constitute the bill of rights, a bill of rights for the protection ...
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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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