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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... jury shall be preserved, which places it on the foot of a lex pro se introducta, and the benefit of it may therefore be relinquished.60 The Court went on to conclude that the summary procedure The Morality of American Law 25.
... jury shall be preserved, which places it on the foot of a lex pro se introducta, and the benefit of it may therefore be relinquished.60 The Court went on to conclude that the summary procedure The Morality of American Law 25.
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... benefit of every citizen of the Union in all courts and in all places; and the people of the several States, in ratifying them in their respective State conventions, have virtually adopted them as beacon-lights to guide and control the ...
... benefit of every citizen of the Union in all courts and in all places; and the people of the several States, in ratifying them in their respective State conventions, have virtually adopted them as beacon-lights to guide and control the ...
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... benefit all citizens, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, and religious or political affiliation. It is a timeless, secular morality that reflects the Framers' beliefs about the right and wrong purposes of government. If ...
... benefit all citizens, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, and religious or political affiliation. It is a timeless, secular morality that reflects the Framers' beliefs about the right and wrong purposes of government. If ...
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... benefit of the people governed.... A free state, at the same time that it is free itself, makes all its members free by excluding licentiousness, and guarding their persons and property and good name against insult. It is the end of all ...
... benefit of the people governed.... A free state, at the same time that it is free itself, makes all its members free by excluding licentiousness, and guarding their persons and property and good name against insult. It is the end of all ...
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... benefits by laws that proscribe harm or threatened harm to the LLP of its individual members. If a law prohibits battery, for example, I can be expected to benefit from that law even if no one ever hits me. The deterrent effect of legal ...
... benefits by laws that proscribe harm or threatened harm to the LLP of its individual members. If a law prohibits battery, for example, I can be expected to benefit from that law even if no one ever hits me. The deterrent effect of legal ...
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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