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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... POLICE POWER Prior to the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights , the incipient American states struggled with defining the reach of their powers . There was a natural desire to differentiate themselves from the British ...
... POLICE POWER Prior to the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights , the incipient American states struggled with defining the reach of their powers . There was a natural desire to differentiate themselves from the British ...
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... power has been the so- called police power. One of the fascinating aspects of the police power is that it did not really exist, as a distinct concept, until the mid-1800s at the earliest.35 Since the phrase was coined, its basic meaning ...
... power has been the so- called police power. One of the fascinating aspects of the police power is that it did not really exist, as a distinct concept, until the mid-1800s at the earliest.35 Since the phrase was coined, its basic meaning ...
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... police and oeconomy [sic]” which he defined as “the due regulation and domestic order of the king- dom: whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family ... police power that are The Morality of American Law 19.
... police and oeconomy [sic]” which he defined as “the due regulation and domestic order of the king- dom: whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family ... police power that are The Morality of American Law 19.
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... police power limited to carrying out the purpose of government itself—that is, preventing and remedying harm to citizens' LLP. Another influential early American law treatise, Christopher Tiedeman's Treatise on the Limitations of the Police ...
... police power limited to carrying out the purpose of government itself—that is, preventing and remedying harm to citizens' LLP. Another influential early American law treatise, Christopher Tiedeman's Treatise on the Limitations of the Police ...
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... police power this way : “ We think it is a settled principle , growing out of the nature of well ordered civil ... power we allude to is ... the police power .... " 45 Similarly , in 1854 the Vermont Supreme Court , in Thorpe v . Rutland ...
... police power this way : “ We think it is a settled principle , growing out of the nature of well ordered civil ... power we allude to is ... the police power .... " 45 Similarly , in 1854 the Vermont Supreme Court , in Thorpe v . Rutland ...
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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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