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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... secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. . . . —Declaration of Independence There is a morality underlying American law itself that is designed to minimize ...
... secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. . . . —Declaration of Independence There is a morality underlying American law itself that is designed to minimize ...
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... secure the Bless- ings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United States of America.”2 In these words, the people of the fledgling states joined together, proclaiming their ...
... secure the Bless- ings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United States of America.”2 In these words, the people of the fledgling states joined together, proclaiming their ...
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... secure the beneficent ends of its institution . " What con- fidence will be reposed in a State government , whose legislation should be character- ized by acts which disgrace the most tyrannical epoch of the British monarchy ? A free ...
... secure the beneficent ends of its institution . " What con- fidence will be reposed in a State government , whose legislation should be character- ized by acts which disgrace the most tyrannical epoch of the British monarchy ? A free ...
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... secure the blessings of liberty - to protect person and property from vio- lence ; and that these were the very purposes for which this government was established , we hold that they constitute a limit to all legislative power , Federal ...
... secure the blessings of liberty - to protect person and property from vio- lence ; and that these were the very purposes for which this government was established , we hold that they constitute a limit to all legislative power , Federal ...
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... secure the citizens' inalienable rights, not render them more insecure. By making the Constitution difficult to amend, Article V's processes were designed to preserve the Constitution's meaningful limits on governmental power as well as ...
... secure the citizens' inalienable rights, not render them more insecure. By making the Constitution difficult to amend, Article V's processes were designed to preserve the Constitution's meaningful limits on governmental power as well as ...
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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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