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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... Supreme Court. Although I had always consid- ered myself politically liberal (having served several years on Capitol Hill as health policy advisor to two decidedly left-leaning Democrats) and supportive of most aspects of the modern ...
... Supreme Court. Although I had always consid- ered myself politically liberal (having served several years on Capitol Hill as health policy advisor to two decidedly left-leaning Democrats) and supportive of most aspects of the modern ...
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... Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, and as a professor of law. With new knowledge came fresh insights—and I did not like what I saw. The Supreme Court's case law was drifting further from the original ...
... Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, and as a professor of law. With new knowledge came fresh insights—and I did not like what I saw. The Supreme Court's case law was drifting further from the original ...
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... Supreme Court's acknowledgment in 1965 of a “right to privacy”6 is mischievously narrow, suggesting that citizens have a right only to engage certain activities in private places. The so-called right to privacy is thereby in confined ...
... Supreme Court's acknowledgment in 1965 of a “right to privacy”6 is mischievously narrow, suggesting that citizens have a right only to engage certain activities in private places. The so-called right to privacy is thereby in confined ...
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... court decisions, though as with early American legal trea- tises, this period is equally replete with court decisions embracing the broader Blackstonian vision . For example , in 1851 the Supreme 20 The Morality of American Law.
... court decisions, though as with early American legal trea- tises, this period is equally replete with court decisions embracing the broader Blackstonian vision . For example , in 1851 the Supreme 20 The Morality of American Law.
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... Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts described the police power this way : “ We think it is a settled principle , growing out of the nature of well ordered civil society , that every holder of property , however absolute and ...
... Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts described the police power this way : “ We think it is a settled principle , growing out of the nature of well ordered civil society , that every holder of property , however absolute and ...
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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