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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... one's bare hands or from a bridge; carrying a slingshot; selling or possessing dyed baby chicks or rabbits; using “indecent” language on the phone or in a park; displaying a deformed animal; spitting on the sidewalk; teaching others ...
... one's bare hands or from a bridge; carrying a slingshot; selling or possessing dyed baby chicks or rabbits; using “indecent” language on the phone or in a park; displaying a deformed animal; spitting on the sidewalk; teaching others ...
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... one's constituents.3 Given this nature , it should come as no surprise that the idealistic , perhaps even naive , foundational principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty have never been fully realized at either ...
... one's constituents.3 Given this nature , it should come as no surprise that the idealistic , perhaps even naive , foundational principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty have never been fully realized at either ...
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... one's life, liberty, or property when on the high seas or abroad, petitioning for redress of grievances by the federal government, petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus.100 The stunning interrelationship between Barron and ...
... one's life, liberty, or property when on the high seas or abroad, petitioning for redress of grievances by the federal government, petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus.100 The stunning interrelationship between Barron and ...
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... one's own desires , free from the control or intermeddling of other sovereigns.2 Yet even sovereigns were constrained by one overarching principle : they owed other sovereigns a duty to refrain from in- flicting injury unless in self ...
... one's own desires , free from the control or intermeddling of other sovereigns.2 Yet even sovereigns were constrained by one overarching principle : they owed other sovereigns a duty to refrain from in- flicting injury unless in self ...
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... one's own life, liberty, and property in a way most conducive to individual happiness, yet recognizes a legitimate governmental power to restrict such autonomy if it harms the lives, liberty, or property of others. In a similar vein ...
... one's own life, liberty, and property in a way most conducive to individual happiness, yet recognizes a legitimate governmental power to restrict such autonomy if it harms the lives, liberty, or property of others. In a similar vein ...
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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