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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... original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the realm of constitutional ...
... original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the realm of constitutional ...
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... original constitutional design: from the his- tory and purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Although I can under- stand the pragmatic and political considerations that have driven the Court's departures from text and original ...
... original constitutional design: from the his- tory and purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Although I can under- stand the pragmatic and political considerations that have driven the Court's departures from text and original ...
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... original meaning . But many words in the Constitution are sufficiently broad that their interpretation by succeeding generations can grow and adapt to new understandings and technology . In this sense , the Constitution is ( and ) was ...
... original meaning . But many words in the Constitution are sufficiently broad that their interpretation by succeeding generations can grow and adapt to new understandings and technology . In this sense , the Constitution is ( and ) was ...
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... original intent than do their liberal counterparts, they, too, are guilty of adopting the win-at-all-costs approach to constitutional interpreta- tion: start with the answer and work backwards, eruditely rationalizing the de- sired ...
... original intent than do their liberal counterparts, they, too, are guilty of adopting the win-at-all-costs approach to constitutional interpreta- tion: start with the answer and work backwards, eruditely rationalizing the de- sired ...
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... original constitutional structure on its head, placing the burden on citizens to convince the courts that laws restricting liberty are “irra- tional”—a heavy burden indeed—rather than requiring the government to ar- ticulate the need ...
... original constitutional structure on its head, placing the burden on citizens to convince the courts that laws restricting liberty are “irra- tional”—a heavy burden indeed—rather than requiring the government to ar- ticulate the need ...
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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