Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 1. 10. 2008. - 304 страница 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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... adults develop a certain thickness of skin toward offen- sive acts , though this does not prevent us from attempting to avoid them , voic- ing our objections , or attempting to educate or persuade others to cease . Some will undoubtedly ...
... adults develop a certain thickness of skin toward offen- sive acts , though this does not prevent us from attempting to avoid them , voic- ing our objections , or attempting to educate or persuade others to cease . Some will undoubtedly ...
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... Devlin's response is both unabashedly paternalistic and majoritarian. His theory of liberty makes no room for the minority, who, although competent adults , are told “ it's for your own good 52 Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle.
... Devlin's response is both unabashedly paternalistic and majoritarian. His theory of liberty makes no room for the minority, who, although competent adults , are told “ it's for your own good 52 Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle.
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Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley. adults , are told “ it's for your own good " even though their actions do nothing more than offend the sensibilities and test the moral convictions of ...
Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley. adults , are told “ it's for your own good " even though their actions do nothing more than offend the sensibilities and test the moral convictions of ...
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... adults, there should be a “presumption of liberty”83 in favor of individuals and against governmental restraint, permitting restraint only when an exercise of individual liberty has harmed or can reasonably be expected to harm another's ...
... adults, there should be a “presumption of liberty”83 in favor of individuals and against governmental restraint, permitting restraint only when an exercise of individual liberty has harmed or can reasonably be expected to harm another's ...
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... adult homosexual sodomy was constitutional. The Court invalidated the law and strongly intimated (though did it not explicitly declare) that laws grounded solely in public morality were violative of individual liberty. In reaching its ...
... adult homosexual sodomy was constitutional. The Court invalidated the law and strongly intimated (though did it not explicitly declare) that laws grounded solely in public morality were violative of individual liberty. In reaching its ...
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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 |
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