Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralitydivIn 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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Page 14
... evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels . That the people in their capacity as state citizens ...
... evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the state and federal levels . That the people in their capacity as state citizens ...
Page 45
... philosophy spilled over to the Framers themselves. The historical evidence is abundant in this regard. James Wilson, a Federalist member of the Continental Congress , delegate to the Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle 45.
... philosophy spilled over to the Framers themselves. The historical evidence is abundant in this regard. James Wilson, a Federalist member of the Continental Congress , delegate to the Being Sovereign: The Harm Principle 45.
Page 54
... evidence that the act harms the LLP of others—an explicit declaration, within the con- stitutional text, of the existence of a collective societal interest. This ensures that individual liberty will not be eroded in the name of societal ...
... evidence that the act harms the LLP of others—an explicit declaration, within the con- stitutional text, of the existence of a collective societal interest. This ensures that individual liberty will not be eroded in the name of societal ...
Page 55
... evidence surfaced re- garding the potentially harmful effects of second-hand smoke that anti-smok- ing ordinances began to be enacted. The logic is that smoking in public invol- untarily subjects non-smokers to potentially harmful ...
... evidence surfaced re- garding the potentially harmful effects of second-hand smoke that anti-smok- ing ordinances began to be enacted. The logic is that smoking in public invol- untarily subjects non-smokers to potentially harmful ...
Page 56
... evidence of harm and the scope of the law. A law that banned smoking on public streets or in public parks, for example, would likely be overbroad, since there is no evidence that smoking in open air venues poses a reasonable threat of ...
... evidence of harm and the scope of the law. A law that banned smoking on public streets or in public parks, for example, would likely be overbroad, since there is no evidence that smoking in open air venues poses a reasonable threat 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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