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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... effect. The important thing, to the liberals, is that the Court reached the right results, even if the analytical path by which those results were reached is fraught with intellectual thorns that are hazardous, in the long term, to both ...
... effect. The important thing, to the liberals, is that the Court reached the right results, even if the analytical path by which those results were reached is fraught with intellectual thorns that are hazardous, in the long term, to both ...
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... effects. As a last-ditch effort, the man smokes marijuana and finds that it relieves his pain and stimulates his ap- petite. He begins cultivating marijuana at his home for medical use. Federal officers seize the marijuana and arrest ...
... effects. As a last-ditch effort, the man smokes marijuana and finds that it relieves his pain and stimulates his ap- petite. He begins cultivating marijuana at his home for medical use. Federal officers seize the marijuana and arrest ...
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... effects of those ill humors [by]which the arts of designing men . . . occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppression of the minor party in the community.... [I]t is not to be inferred . . . that the ...
... effects of those ill humors [by]which the arts of designing men . . . occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppression of the minor party in the community.... [I]t is not to be inferred . . . that the ...
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... effect. The preamble to the Vermont constitution, for example, declared that “all government ought to be instituted and supported, for the security and protection of the community, as such, and to enable the individuals who compose it ...
... effect. The preamble to the Vermont constitution, for example, declared that “all government ought to be instituted and supported, for the security and protection of the community, as such, and to enable the individuals who compose it ...
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... effect to such as they deemed necessary for the common good and the security of life and property. All the powers which they retained they committed to their respective States, unless in express terms or by implication reserved to ...
... effect to such as they deemed necessary for the common good and the security of life and property. All the powers which they retained they committed to their respective States, unless in express terms or by implication reserved to ...
Contenido
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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 |
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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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