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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... tion and the meaning ascribed to those words by the Framers provided the guideposts to legitimate constitutional interpretation and could not be undone by causes du jour. My originalist position solidified in the ensuing years, through ...
... tion and the meaning ascribed to those words by the Framers provided the guideposts to legitimate constitutional interpretation and could not be undone by causes du jour. My originalist position solidified in the ensuing years, through ...
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... tion is a net societal good , since it has generally allowed desired changes to oc- cur . For example , the Court's infamous “ switch in time that saved nine ” during the New Deal is hailed by liberals as a positive transformative ...
... tion is a net societal good , since it has generally allowed desired changes to oc- cur . For example , the Court's infamous “ switch in time that saved nine ” during the New Deal is hailed by liberals as a positive transformative ...
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... tion: start with the answer and work backwards, eruditely rationalizing the de- sired outcome, even if it is at odds with the text and its original meaning. They try to cover their ideological bias in the wrapping of judicial restraint ...
... tion: start with the answer and work backwards, eruditely rationalizing the de- sired outcome, even if it is at odds with the text and its original meaning. They try to cover their ideological bias in the wrapping of judicial restraint ...
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... tion is also owed to Dean Evan Caminker, library Director Margaret Leary, IT Director Rosa Peters, and librarian Sandra Zeff of the University of Michigan Law School, for extending various important professional courtesies to me while I ...
... tion is also owed to Dean Evan Caminker, library Director Margaret Leary, IT Director Rosa Peters, and librarian Sandra Zeff of the University of Michigan Law School, for extending various important professional courtesies to me while I ...
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... tion are ordinary laws, enacted by a legislative majority, that tell citizens what specific actions are punishable. These ordinary laws often reflect “public moral- ity”—i.e., the passions, prejudices, and moral beliefs of a portion of ...
... tion are ordinary laws, enacted by a legislative majority, that tell citizens what specific actions are punishable. These ordinary laws often reflect “public moral- ity”—i.e., the passions, prejudices, and moral beliefs of a portion of ...
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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