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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... Federal officers seize the marijuana and arrest him for drug possession. Although the state where the man lives allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the federal government considers it a felony. If con- victed, he faces ...
... Federal officers seize the marijuana and arrest him for drug possession. Although the state where the man lives allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the federal government considers it a felony. If con- victed, he faces ...
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... Federal Regulations, the over 75,000 pages of the Federal Register, and the innumerable pages of informal agency opinions and guidance documents to appreciate the magnitude of the problem and reach of the law. Federal laws, of course ...
... Federal Regulations, the over 75,000 pages of the Federal Register, and the innumerable pages of informal agency opinions and guidance documents to appreciate the magnitude of the problem and reach of the law. Federal laws, of course ...
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... federal government, however, was not the exclusive repository of this political philosophy. Numerous revolutionary-era state con- stitutions reflected it as well. The Maryland Constitution of 1776, for example, declared in its first ...
... federal government, however, was not the exclusive repository of this political philosophy. Numerous revolutionary-era state con- stitutions reflected it as well. The Maryland Constitution of 1776, for example, declared in its first ...
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... federal law from state law. Although the United States is a federalist system in which there is meaningful delineation between the federal and state governments, it is often overlooked that the United States and the states com- prising ...
... federal law from state law. Although the United States is a federalist system in which there is meaningful delineation between the federal and state governments, it is often overlooked that the United States and the states com- prising ...
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... federal or state - should exercise these legitimate powers . There is ample evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the ...
... federal or state - should exercise these legitimate powers . There is ample evidence that the founding generation embraced the concept of residual individual sovereignty - and hence , limited government - with equal vigor at both the ...
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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