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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... Justice John Marshall, in which he declared that the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause71 did not apply to the states. Although the holding of Barron was technically limited to the Takings Clause, Marshall's dicta was much broader ...
... Justice John Marshall, in which he declared that the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause71 did not apply to the states. Although the holding of Barron was technically limited to the Takings Clause, Marshall's dicta was much broader ...
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... justice are vague and uncer- tain , regulated by no fixed standard ; the ablest and best men differing widely upon this , as well as all other subjects . But as to questions arising under these amendments , there is nothing indefinite ...
... justice are vague and uncer- tain , regulated by no fixed standard ; the ablest and best men differing widely upon this , as well as all other subjects . But as to questions arising under these amendments , there is nothing indefinite ...
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... Justice Marshall's brief analysis : Had the people of the several states , or any of them , required changes in their con- stitutions ; had they required additional safeguards to liberty from the apprehended encroachments of their ...
... Justice Marshall's brief analysis : Had the people of the several states , or any of them , required changes in their con- stitutions ; had they required additional safeguards to liberty from the apprehended encroachments of their ...
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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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