Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 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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Page 13
... amendments (one through eight) and two residual amend- ments (nine and ten), each of which served as potent reminders ... Fourteenth Amendment. I will postpone this standard incorporation inquiry for now, though I will address it later ...
... amendments (one through eight) and two residual amend- ments (nine and ten), each of which served as potent reminders ... Fourteenth Amendment. I will postpone this standard incorporation inquiry for now, though I will address it later ...
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... Amendment, yet it is clear that the Court feels it necessary to address the validity of the Maryland law under the ... Fourteenth Amendment articulated their view that the privileges and immunities bestowed by the federal Bill of Rights ...
... Amendment, yet it is clear that the Court feels it necessary to address the validity of the Maryland law under the ... Fourteenth Amendment articulated their view that the privileges and immunities bestowed by the federal Bill of Rights ...
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... FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT The enactment of the Civil War Amendments presented a clear opportunity to return to the ... Fourteenth Amendment marked a significant turning point in American constitutional law, providing strong ammunition for ...
... FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT The enactment of the Civil War Amendments presented a clear opportunity to return to the ... Fourteenth Amendment marked a significant turning point in American constitutional law, providing strong ammunition for ...
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... amendment which de- clared, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privi- leges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” Instead, we are asked to believe that the people, when ratifying the Fourteenth ...
... amendment which de- clared, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privi- leges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” Instead, we are asked to believe that the people, when ratifying the Fourteenth ...
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... Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause , even though the Privileges and Immunities Clause was much better suited to the task . Strikingly , the Court's selective incorporation approach to the Bill of Rights via the Due Process Clause ...
... Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause , even though the Privileges and Immunities Clause was much better suited to the task . Strikingly , the Court's selective incorporation approach to the Bill of Rights via the Due Process Clause ...
Contents
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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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