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 |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 47
Pagina xi
... society . The necessary focus on contemporary issues , nevertheless , should not pro- vide carte blanche to ignore the Constitution and its foundational principles . The Framers have given us wonderful words and principles that cannot ...
... society . The necessary focus on contemporary issues , nevertheless , should not pro- vide carte blanche to ignore the Constitution and its foundational principles . The Framers have given us wonderful words and principles that cannot ...
Pagina xiii
... society, could live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embod- ied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was designed by the Framers for that very purpose: to protect individual ...
... society, could live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embod- ied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was designed by the Framers for that very purpose: to protect individual ...
Pagina 5
... societies — radical segments of Islam , for example - yet they rarely stop to con- sider whether their own zeal to ... society . The current judicial response to public morality - based laws is to presume them constitutional . The ...
... societies — radical segments of Islam , for example - yet they rarely stop to con- sider whether their own zeal to ... society . The current judicial response to public morality - based laws is to presume them constitutional . The ...
Pagina 6
... society . Legislatively enacted preferences of the majority may appear heavy - handed , culturally insensitive , or motivated by prejudice , generating alienation between the affected minority and the majority . It should come as no ...
... society . Legislatively enacted preferences of the majority may appear heavy - handed , culturally insensitive , or motivated by prejudice , generating alienation between the affected minority and the majority . It should come as no ...
Pagina 7
... society . Recognizing and restoring the morality of American law would reduce the open hostility between public morality and individual privacy , provide an ob- jective analytical structure for resolving such conflicts , and create more ...
... society . Recognizing and restoring the morality of American law would reduce the open hostility between public morality and individual privacy , provide an ob- jective analytical structure for resolving such conflicts , and create more ...
Cuprins
1 | |
8 | |
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 |
281 | |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Vizualizare fragmente - 2006 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2012 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
abuse adultery American law asserted assisted suicide autonomy Bill of Rights citizens civil Clause cloning Code Ann common law competent adults concluded consent constitutional consume contraceptives crime criminal decision declared drugs due process embryos enacted ernment evidence example exercise of governmental Extreme Associates federal Bill fornication Fourteenth Amendment Framers government and residual governmental power harm principle hereinafter homosexual human incest individual liberty injury institution interests Justice Lawrence legislative legislature legitimate basis limited government majority marijuana married morality of American Ninth Amendment obscenity Olestra one’s parens patriae person plural marriage police power polygamy potential prevent principles of limited procreation prostitution public morality punishment Randy Barnett regulate relationship reproductive residual individual sovereignty restricting result risk same-sex marriage self-harm sex toys sexual society specific Stat statute statutory rape sterilization substances Supreme Court T]he tion U.S. CONST United women