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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... injury , exacerbating the decline of moral values and providing legal sanctu- ary to activities many Americans consider distasteful and deeply offensive.13 Indeed , recent polls indicate that a large majority of Americans blame the cur ...
... injury , exacerbating the decline of moral values and providing legal sanctu- ary to activities many Americans consider distasteful and deeply offensive.13 Indeed , recent polls indicate that a large majority of Americans blame the cur ...
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... injuries and wrongs” upon others, which he defines as “a vi- olation of a right” to life, liberty, or property.40 Another prominent early American legal scholar, Thomas Cooley, penned the influential A Treatise on the Constitutional ...
... injuries and wrongs” upon others, which he defines as “a vi- olation of a right” to life, liberty, or property.40 Another prominent early American legal scholar, Thomas Cooley, penned the influential A Treatise on the Constitutional ...
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... injury unless in 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 ...
... injury unless in 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 ...
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... injury, to secure the liberty of the indi- vidual against private injury. I do not, therefore, think it strictly just to say, that it belongs to the nature of government to entrench on private liberty. It ought never to do this, except ...
... injury, to secure the liberty of the indi- vidual against private injury. I do not, therefore, think it strictly just to say, that it belongs to the nature of government to entrench on private liberty. It ought never to do this, except ...
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... injury to others . . . . ” 26 Wilson more pointedly declared in his famed lectures on law , " Suppose . that one has done neither a wrong nor an injury to any individual , yet if he has committed something which the law has prohibited ...
... injury to others . . . . ” 26 Wilson more pointedly declared in his famed lectures on law , " Suppose . that one has done neither a wrong nor an injury to any individual , yet if he has committed something which the law has prohibited ...
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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