Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 304 pagina's 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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Pagina 2
... activity we consider icky, gross, or just plain wrong? This book will argue that the answer is no because public ... activities in private places. The so-called right to privacy is thereby confined behind closed doors, protecting only a ...
... activity we consider icky, gross, or just plain wrong? This book will argue that the answer is no because public ... activities in private places. The so-called right to privacy is thereby confined behind closed doors, protecting only a ...
Pagina 4
... activity, enacting, repealing, and refining laws. The exponential growth of laws is an ineluctable by-product of ... activities they deem morally objectionable. In this environment, judicial decisions in favor of individual liberty A ...
... activity, enacting, repealing, and refining laws. The exponential growth of laws is an ineluctable by-product of ... activities they deem morally objectionable. In this environment, judicial decisions in favor of individual liberty A ...
Pagina 5
... activities many Americans consider distasteful and deeply offensive.13 Indeed, recent polls indicate that a large ... activity. Americans routinely decry the perceived intolerance of other societies—radical segments of Islam, for ...
... activities many Americans consider distasteful and deeply offensive.13 Indeed, recent polls indicate that a large ... activity. Americans routinely decry the perceived intolerance of other societies—radical segments of Islam, for ...
Pagina 18
... activity that harms or threatens to harm the LLP of other citizens, granting states the ability to enforce the fundamental maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.38 The further one gets from the ratification of the Constitution and ...
... activity that harms or threatens to harm the LLP of other citizens, granting states the ability to enforce the fundamental maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.38 The further one gets from the ratification of the Constitution and ...
Pagina 57
... activities is that the risk of harm is borne ex- clusively by the actor. Although society may condemn poor eating habits or snorting cocaine, these activities alone do not threaten the LLP of others. There are, of course, some self ...
... activities is that the risk of harm is borne ex- clusively by the actor. Although society may condemn poor eating habits or snorting cocaine, these activities alone do not threaten the LLP of others. There are, of course, some self ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2008 |
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Elizabeth Price Foley Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2012 |
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