Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 1 oct. 2008 - 304 pages 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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... harm, make their lives more prosperous, and guard their liberty. Under this new view of government, individual liberty was no longer a privilege wrested from an all-powerful monarch but an inalienable human right.3 The newly formed ...
... harm, make their lives more prosperous, and guard their liberty. Under this new view of government, individual liberty was no longer a privilege wrested from an all-powerful monarch but an inalienable human right.3 The newly formed ...
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... harm. Beyond this, Ameri- cans are deeply divided, particularly as to whether government may restrain in- dividual liberty simply because its exercise offends public morality. Agreement on the issue of using governmental power to ...
... harm. Beyond this, Ameri- cans are deeply divided, particularly as to whether government may restrain in- dividual liberty simply because its exercise offends public morality. Agreement on the issue of using governmental power to ...
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... harm to another (a topic that will be more elaborately discussed in the next chap- ter). This was the understanding of state power up until at least the mid-1800s. If one parses the statements of prominent legal scholars, courts, and ...
... harm to another (a topic that will be more elaborately discussed in the next chap- ter). This was the understanding of state power up until at least the mid-1800s. If one parses the statements of prominent legal scholars, courts, and ...
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... harm to citizens' LLP. Another influential early American law treatise, Christopher Tiedeman's Treatise on the Limitations of the Police Power, agreed with Cooley's understand- ing of state police power, asserting: “It is to be observed ...
... harm to citizens' LLP. Another influential early American law treatise, Christopher Tiedeman's Treatise on the Limitations of the Police Power, agreed with Cooley's understand- ing of state police power, asserting: “It is to be observed ...
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... harm oth- ers), its analytical foundation was undeniably a reflection of the unique Ameri- can principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty. These select cases echo an early understanding of the limitations and ...
... harm oth- ers), its analytical foundation was undeniably a reflection of the unique Ameri- can principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty. These select cases echo an early understanding of the limitations and ...
Table des matières
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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 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Affichage d'extraits - 2006 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Aucun aperçu disponible - 2012 |
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