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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... LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND RESIDUAL POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY The American Revolution did not merely break the colonies' formal ties with Great Britain; it transformed the definition of government itself. Those who came to the New World rejected ...
... LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND RESIDUAL POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY The American Revolution did not merely break the colonies' formal ties with Great Britain; it transformed the definition of government itself. Those who came to the New World rejected ...
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... limited in its powers , lacked any legitimate authority to infringe upon individual rights.12 Federalists ac- cordingly argued that a bill of rights might prove antithetical to individual lib- erty , since the enumeration of some ...
... limited in its powers , lacked any legitimate authority to infringe upon individual rights.12 Federalists ac- cordingly argued that a bill of rights might prove antithetical to individual lib- erty , since the enumeration of some ...
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... limited governmental power and explicit recogni- tion of individual rights. The two concepts were complementary, providing a double security for the blessings of liberty. Even if the limits on government power were eventually eroded ...
... limited governmental power and explicit recogni- tion of individual rights. The two concepts were complementary, providing a double security for the blessings of liberty. Even if the limits on government power were eventually eroded ...
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... limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels . That the people in their capacity as state citizens still retained a large degree of individual sovereignty is evident in both the text and the meaning of the ...
... limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels . That the people in their capacity as state citizens still retained a large degree of individual sovereignty is evident in both the text and the meaning of the ...
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... limited to those enumerated in the con- stitutional text; (2) if a power is not granted to the federal government, it is reserved to the states or to the people; and therefore (3) there are necessarily certain rights reserved to the ...
... limited to those enumerated in the con- stitutional text; (2) if a power is not granted to the federal government, it is reserved to the states or to the people; and therefore (3) there are necessarily certain rights reserved to the ...
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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 |
Index | 281 |
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