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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... 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 intended to be ) a living document , setting forth ...
... 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 intended to be ) a living document , setting forth ...
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... sufficiently attended to . . . .”9 Jefferson agreed with Madison that collective popular sovereignty was likely to prove oppressive to individual liberty if left unchecked: “Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plentitude of its ...
... sufficiently attended to . . . .”9 Jefferson agreed with Madison that collective popular sovereignty was likely to prove oppressive to individual liberty if left unchecked: “Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plentitude of its ...
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... sufficiently broad to require allegiance by the states, particularly in light of the Supremacy Clause.51 The orthodox view has been developed for pragmatic purposes, but it has spawned troubling intellectual inconsistencies and ...
... sufficiently broad to require allegiance by the states, particularly in light of the Supremacy Clause.51 The orthodox view has been developed for pragmatic purposes, but it has spawned troubling intellectual inconsistencies and ...
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... sufficient for the pro- tection of the liberties of the citizen. But still I have, somehow or other, gone along with the impression that there is that sort of protection thrown over us in some way, whether with or without the sanction ...
... sufficient for the pro- tection of the liberties of the citizen. But still I have, somehow or other, gone along with the impression that there is that sort of protection thrown over us in some way, whether with or without the sanction ...
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... sufficiently important to apply with equal force to the states: [D]oes it follow that because the people refused to delegate to the general govern- ment the power to take from them the right to keep and bear arms that they designed to ...
... sufficiently important to apply with equal force to the states: [D]oes it follow that because the people refused to delegate to the general govern- ment the power to take from them the right to keep and bear arms that they designed to ...
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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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