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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... results the people want—the modern response is to let the Supreme Court fix it; no need to resort to the cumbersome super-majoritarian amendment processes of Article V. We the people do not need to get involved; we can let the pros ...
... results the people want—the modern response is to let the Supreme Court fix it; no need to resort to the cumbersome super-majoritarian amendment processes of Article V. We the people do not need to get involved; we can let the pros ...
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... results , even if the analytical path by which those results were reached is fraught with intellectual thorns that are haz- ardous , in the long term , to both the legitimacy of the written constitution and the preservation of ...
... results , even if the analytical path by which those results were reached is fraught with intellectual thorns that are haz- ardous , in the long term , to both the legitimacy of the written constitution and the preservation of ...
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... resulting in harm to all. The problem, of course, is that radical ideology sells. It is much sexier to be an ideologue than an idealist. Stridently pushing a political ideology can propel adherents into the spotlight and reward them ...
... resulting in harm to all. The problem, of course, is that radical ideology sells. It is much sexier to be an ideologue than an idealist. Stridently pushing a political ideology can propel adherents into the spotlight and reward them ...
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... result of the silent constitutional revolution is a laby- rinth of laws regulating virtually every aspect of behavior, limiting what citizens can say, read, see, consume, and do.7 One need only peruse the 36,000-plus pages of the United ...
... result of the silent constitutional revolution is a laby- rinth of laws regulating virtually every aspect of behavior, limiting what citizens can say, read, see, consume, and do.7 One need only peruse the 36,000-plus pages of the United ...
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... result of the uncontrolled power of the majority , acting through its legislative representatives . Legislators win or lose elections based on their perceived receptivity to the majority's desires , with the result that legisla- tures ...
... result of the uncontrolled power of the majority , acting through its legislative representatives . Legislators win or lose elections based on their perceived receptivity to the majority's desires , with the result that legisla- tures ...
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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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