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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... legislatures, even though the text and meaning of the Constitution suggests that the Framers did not intend to adopt the British system of Parliamentary supremacy. Instead, as this book will demonstrate, the Framers envisioned a blended ...
... legislatures, even though the text and meaning of the Constitution suggests that the Framers did not intend to adopt the British system of Parliamentary supremacy. Instead, as this book will demonstrate, the Framers envisioned a blended ...
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... legislature enacts a public morality - based law and there is no specific constitu- tional language prohibiting such a law , the only remedy for those restrained by the law lies with the political process . 15 Judges should not read too ...
... legislature enacts a public morality - based law and there is no specific constitu- tional language prohibiting such a law , the only remedy for those restrained by the law lies with the political process . 15 Judges should not read too ...
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... Legislature , the maxim of the law , “ salus populi suprema lex , ” should not be disregarded . It is the great principle on which the statutes for the security of the people is based . It is the foundation of criminal law , in all ...
... Legislature , the maxim of the law , “ salus populi suprema lex , ” should not be disregarded . It is the great principle on which the statutes for the security of the people is based . It is the foundation of criminal law , in all ...
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... Legislature.65 Bingham challenged Hale by demanding that he “point to a single decision” of the federal or state courts in which a “party aggrieved in his person within a State”—e.g., a slave or freed slave—was acknowledged to enjoy the ...
... Legislature.65 Bingham challenged Hale by demanding that he “point to a single decision” of the federal or state courts in which a “party aggrieved in his person within a State”—e.g., a slave or freed slave—was acknowledged to enjoy the ...
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... legislatures. This is a right too dear to be confided to a republican legislature. Questions under some of these amendments, it is true, can only arise under the laws and Constitution of the United States. But there are other provisions ...
... legislatures. This is a right too dear to be confided to a republican legislature. Questions under some of these amendments, it is true, can only arise under the laws and Constitution of the United States. But there are other provisions ...
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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