Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 304 páginas 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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... find normatively desirable and wholly plausible. What would the world look like, in other words, if we adhered to the Framers' understanding of government? I realize that many other theories of American constitutional law have numerous ...
... find normatively desirable and wholly plausible. What would the world look like, in other words, if we adhered to the Framers' understanding of government? I realize that many other theories of American constitutional law have numerous ...
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... find it- self again , this book suggests that we will need to take out our Constitution , dust if off , and regain proper respect for the morality of American law that it re- veals.2 22 8 Chapter 2 The Morality of American Law We hold A ...
... find it- self again , this book suggests that we will need to take out our Constitution , dust if off , and regain proper respect for the morality of American law that it re- veals.2 22 8 Chapter 2 The Morality of American Law We hold A ...
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... find themselves among the minority on some issue , necessitating meaningful , enforceable limits to ensure that exercises of collective popular sovereignty did not infringe upon the realm of residual individual rights . As Richard Henry ...
... find themselves among the minority on some issue , necessitating meaningful , enforceable limits to ensure that exercises of collective popular sovereignty did not infringe upon the realm of residual individual rights . As Richard Henry ...
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... a new generation of lawyers who could properly espouse the new constitutional philosophy. Because of this early reliance on British legal texts, it is not unusual to find state courts and 18 The Morality of American Law.
... a new generation of lawyers who could properly espouse the new constitutional philosophy. Because of this early reliance on British legal texts, it is not unusual to find state courts and 18 The Morality of American Law.
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... find state courts and legal scholars embracing a broad Blackstonian conception of offenses “against the public police and oeconomy [sic]” which he defined as “the due regulation and domestic order of the king- dom: whereby the ...
... find state courts and legal scholars embracing a broad Blackstonian conception of offenses “against the public police and oeconomy [sic]” which he defined as “the due regulation and domestic order of the king- dom: whereby the ...
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The Harm Principle | 41 |
4 Marriage | 65 |
5 Sex | 102 |
6 Reproduction | 131 |
7 Medical Care | 151 |
8 Food Drugs and Alcohol | 178 |
Notes | 199 |
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Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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