Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public MoralityYale University Press, 1 Okt 2008 - 304 halaman 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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Halaman xi
... believe constitutional interpretation should focus on text and its original meaning. But many words in the Constitution are sufficiently broad that their interpretation by succeeding generations can grow and adapt to new understandings ...
... believe constitutional interpretation should focus on text and its original meaning. But many words in the Constitution are sufficiently broad that their interpretation by succeeding generations can grow and adapt to new understandings ...
Halaman xii
... believe that the law and its interpretation should further these principles in an objective, unbiased manner. But there is a high price to pay for silence and inaction, as American constitutional law has become one of the primary ...
... believe that the law and its interpretation should further these principles in an objective, unbiased manner. But there is a high price to pay for silence and inaction, as American constitutional law has become one of the primary ...
Halaman xiii
... believe the Framers intended us to take so that America, a melting pot of society, could live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embodied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was ...
... believe the Framers intended us to take so that America, a melting pot of society, could live up to its potential. I will argue that there is a morality of American law, embodied in the Constitution, that transcends ideology—indeed, was ...
Halaman 13
... believe it is based on an unfortunately myopic view of American law that compartmentalizes and separates federal law from state law. Although the United States is a federalist system in which there is meaningful delineation between the ...
... believe it is based on an unfortunately myopic view of American law that compartmentalizes and separates federal law from state law. Although the United States is a federalist system in which there is meaningful delineation between the ...
Halaman 28
... believe that, because the people withheld this arbitrary power of disfranchisement from Congress, they ever intended to confer it on the local legislatures. This is a right too dear to be confided to a republican legislature. Questions ...
... believe that, because the people withheld this arbitrary power of disfranchisement from Congress, they ever intended to confer it on the local legislatures. This is a right too dear to be confided to a republican legislature. Questions ...
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