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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... self - defense.3 As co - equals , therefore , sovereigns were obligated under the law of nations to treat each other with respect and avoid be- ing aggressive or injurious to each other ; short of this basic prescription , how- ever , a ...
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... harm. For now, suffice it to say that the criticism of the harm principle as both too broad and too narrow suggests that its critics on both the ideological right and left find it inadequate to suit their particular agendas—an outcome ...
... harm. For now, suffice it to say that the criticism of the harm principle as both too broad and too narrow suggests that its critics on both the ideological right and left find it inadequate to suit their particular agendas—an outcome ...
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... self to do none. ... But without prejudice to the Society into which I enter ... harm princi- ple thus: “Government is an institution for the benefit of the ... harm principle as the animating factor of law, one must still be convinced ...
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... self - inflicted ? Likewise , would an act that harms the moral sensibility of an individual or of a significant ... harm . And it has been the inherent difficulty in defining harm that has spawned the most ardent criticism of the harm ...
... self - inflicted ? Likewise , would an act that harms the moral sensibility of an individual or of a significant ... harm . And it has been the inherent difficulty in defining harm that has spawned the most ardent criticism of the harm ...
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... Self-Harm Of the many Framers and philosophers who espoused the harm principle, few stopped to consider whether it would be a legitimate exercise of governmental power to restrain individuals from harming themselves. Of those who did ...
... Self-Harm Of the many Framers and philosophers who espoused the harm principle, few stopped to consider whether it would be a legitimate exercise of governmental power to restrain individuals from harming themselves. Of those who did ...
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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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