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 vi
... live - with thee I wish to die ! Pardon me if I drop a tear on the peril to which she is exposed : I cannot , sir , see these brightest of jewels tarnished ! A jewel worth ten thousand worlds ! And shall we part with it so soon ? O ! no ...
... live - with thee I wish to die ! Pardon me if I drop a tear on the peril to which she is exposed : I cannot , sir , see these brightest of jewels tarnished ! A jewel worth ten thousand worlds ! And shall we part with it so soon ? O ! no ...
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... live and let live”—and thus the morality of Amer- ican law—has been lost, resulting in harm to all. The problem, of course, is that radical ideology sells. It is much sexier to be an ideologue than an idealist. Stridently pushing a ...
... live and let live”—and thus the morality of Amer- ican law—has been lost, resulting in harm to all. The problem, of course, is that radical ideology sells. It is much sexier to be an ideologue than an idealist. Stridently pushing a ...
Page xiii
... live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embod- ied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was designed by the Framers for that very purpose: to protect individual liberty (the ...
... live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embod- ied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was designed by the Framers for that very purpose: to protect individual liberty (the ...
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... lives allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the federal government considers it a felony. If con- victed, he faces many years in prison and the loss of his rights to vote and possess a gun. An American meets the love of her ...
... lives allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the federal government considers it a felony. If con- victed, he faces many years in prison and the loss of his rights to vote and possess a gun. An American meets the love of her ...
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... live in a state that has enacted a state consti- tutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. If they are to remain to- gether, they must leave the United States. In situations such as these, which should trump: individual privacy ...
... live in a state that has enacted a state consti- tutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. If they are to remain to- gether, they must leave the United States. In situations such as these, which should trump: individual privacy ...
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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