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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... risk of harm to others' LLP and, because of this risk of external harm, are legiti- mately proscribable by law. A classic example is driving while intoxicated, which has been shown to pose a reasonable risk of harm to the lives and prop ...
... risk of harm to others' LLP and, because of this risk of external harm, are legiti- mately proscribable by law. A classic example is driving while intoxicated, which has been shown to pose a reasonable risk of harm to the lives and prop ...
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... risk of harm emanates from themselves or from others. THE MORALITY OF LAW VERSUS PUBLIC MORALITY The circumference of the morality of American law is much narrower than that of public morality. Public morality, which is grounded in ...
... risk of harm emanates from themselves or from others. THE MORALITY OF LAW VERSUS PUBLIC MORALITY The circumference of the morality of American law is much narrower than that of public morality. Public morality, which is grounded in ...
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... risk of harm to the LLP of others, and the law legitimately may punish those who create such risks when they subsequently result in harm to others. Similarly, the law legitimately cannot mandate truth-telling, yet it may punish fraud ...
... risk of harm to the LLP of others, and the law legitimately may punish those who create such risks when they subsequently result in harm to others. Similarly, the law legitimately cannot mandate truth-telling, yet it may punish fraud ...
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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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