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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... prevent their pestilence from spreading throughout society . The current judicial response to public morality - based laws is to presume them constitutional . The American judiciary has erected a stilted and apolo- getic approach to ...
... prevent their pestilence from spreading throughout society . The current judicial response to public morality - based laws is to presume them constitutional . The American judiciary has erected a stilted and apolo- getic approach to ...
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... prevent offences against the State, but also to establish for the intercourse of citizen with citizen those rules of good man- ners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the ...
... prevent offences against the State, but also to establish for the intercourse of citizen with citizen those rules of good man- ners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the ...
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... prevent the individual from interrupting the enjoyment of oth- ers' LLP. The first category addresses harms inflicted by one citizen against an innocent citizen (e.g., theft). The second category addresses the classic conflict of rights ...
... prevent the individual from interrupting the enjoyment of oth- ers' LLP. The first category addresses harms inflicted by one citizen against an innocent citizen (e.g., theft). The second category addresses the classic conflict of rights ...
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... prevent them from being injurious . . . . The power we allude to is ... the police power .... " 45 Similarly , in 1854 the Vermont Supreme Court , in Thorpe v . Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company , defined the legitimate scope of ...
... prevent them from being injurious . . . . The power we allude to is ... the police power .... " 45 Similarly , in 1854 the Vermont Supreme Court , in Thorpe v . Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company , defined the legitimate scope of ...
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... prevent the spread of crime , or pauperism , or disturbance of the peace . It may exclude from its limits convicts , paupers , idiots , and lunatics , and persons likely to become a public charge , as well as persons afflicted by ...
... prevent the spread of crime , or pauperism , or disturbance of the peace . It may exclude from its limits convicts , paupers , idiots , and lunatics , and persons likely to become a public charge , as well as persons afflicted by ...
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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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