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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... regulating virtually every aspect of behavior, limiting what citizens can say, read, see, consume, and do.7 One need only peruse the 36,000-plus pages of the United States Code, the corresponding 210-plus volumes of the Code of Federal ...
... regulating virtually every aspect of behavior, limiting what citizens can say, read, see, consume, and do.7 One need only peruse the 36,000-plus pages of the United States Code, the corresponding 210-plus volumes of the Code of Federal ...
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... regulate commerce , borrow and coin money , establish uniform bankruptcy and naturalization laws , etc. Once the Constitution delineated the scope of the new federal government's what powers were left to the states ? This was a question ...
... regulate commerce , borrow and coin money , establish uniform bankruptcy and naturalization laws , etc. Once the Constitution delineated the scope of the new federal government's what powers were left to the states ? This was a question ...
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... regulating rights and protecting citizens, to a virtually plenary legislative power over citizens.36 Why this has ... regulate any activity that harms or threatens to harm the LLP of other citizens, granting states the ability to ...
... regulating rights and protecting citizens, to a virtually plenary legislative power over citizens.36 Why this has ... regulate any activity that harms or threatens to harm the LLP of other citizens, granting states the ability to ...
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... regulate their own pursuits of indus- try and improvement. ... This is the sum of good government,and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”39 Indeed, by the early nineteenth century, Jefferson had become angered by ...
... regulate their own pursuits of indus- try and improvement. ... This is the sum of good government,and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”39 Indeed, by the early nineteenth century, Jefferson had become angered by ...
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... to support a conclusion that second-hand smoke reasonably threatens harm to others, it is a legitimate exercise of governmental power to prohibit or regulate smoking in public. It should Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle 55.
... to support a conclusion that second-hand smoke reasonably threatens harm to others, it is a legitimate exercise of governmental power to prohibit or regulate smoking in public. It should Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle 55.
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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