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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... nature and lost their original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the ...
... nature and lost their original constitution. —Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, 1758 I began thinking about this book more than a decade ago, after I had begun the intellectual journey into the ...
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... natural right founded in reason , could he plead it and produce Locke , Sydney , or Mon- tesquieu as authority ? . . . The truth is , that the rights of individuals are fre- quently opposed to the apparent interests of the majority ...
... natural right founded in reason , could he plead it and produce Locke , Sydney , or Mon- tesquieu as authority ? . . . The truth is , that the rights of individuals are fre- quently opposed to the apparent interests of the majority ...
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... natural rights. . . .” 30 It defined these “natural rights” that government was formed to protect as “enjoy- ing and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting prop- erty, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and ...
... natural rights. . . .” 30 It defined these “natural rights” that government was formed to protect as “enjoy- ing and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting prop- erty, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and ...
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... nature : those in power prefer to employ their power in a way that furthers their own political ends . The inherent human tendency — a ten- dency of which the Framers were well aware — is to expand power once held and to use it a way ...
... nature : those in power prefer to employ their power in a way that furthers their own political ends . The inherent human tendency — a ten- dency of which the Framers were well aware — is to expand power once held and to use it a way ...
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... natural sover- eignty to government for the limited purpose of improving and protecting citi- zens' LLP. Despite these clear declarations, the residual power remaining with the states after ratification of the Constitution and Bill of ...
... natural sover- eignty to government for the limited purpose of improving and protecting citi- zens' LLP. Despite these clear declarations, the residual power remaining with the states after ratification of the Constitution and Bill 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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