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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... restricting liberty are “irra- tional”—a heavy burden indeed—rather than requiring the government to ar- ticulate the need for restricting individual liberty.4 Narrow judicial interpretation of several important liberty-protecting con ...
... restricting liberty are “irra- tional”—a heavy burden indeed—rather than requiring the government to ar- ticulate the need for restricting individual liberty.4 Narrow judicial interpretation of several important liberty-protecting con ...
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... restricting individual liberty. The legitimacy of societal interests as a basis for restricting individual liberty depends on the basis for concluding that societal interests exist. Perhaps the best place to start is with a hypothetical ...
... restricting individual liberty. The legitimacy of societal interests as a basis for restricting individual liberty depends on the basis for concluding that societal interests exist. Perhaps the best place to start is with a hypothetical ...
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... restricting in- dividual liberty, there is another, more subtle dimension to societal interests than just majoritarian desires to restrain fellow citizens. In particular, there are many situations in which one person's exercise of ...
... restricting in- dividual liberty, there is another, more subtle dimension to societal interests than just majoritarian desires to restrain fellow citizens. In particular, there are many situations in which one person's exercise of ...
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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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