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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... protect individual liberty (the highest ex- pression of equality) and promote social harmony. So if anyone asks, “What is the relationship of morality to law in the United States?” I hope future genera- tions will answer, “American law ...
... protect individual liberty (the highest ex- pression of equality) and promote social harmony. So if anyone asks, “What is the relationship of morality to law in the United States?” I hope future genera- tions will answer, “American law ...
Halaman 2
... protecting con- stitutional phrases combined with a steadily expanding interpretation of gov- ernment powers has fundamentally altered the original Constitution sub silen- tio.5Even the Supreme Court's acknowledgment in 1965 of a “right ...
... protecting con- stitutional phrases combined with a steadily expanding interpretation of gov- ernment powers has fundamentally altered the original Constitution sub silen- tio.5Even the Supreme Court's acknowledgment in 1965 of a “right ...
Halaman 4
... protect themselves or their children from these socio - demographic changes or from the insidious influence of a pop culture run amok . 12 The tendency of human beings , when they feel their values are besieged , is to fight back using ...
... protect themselves or their children from these socio - demographic changes or from the insidious influence of a pop culture run amok . 12 The tendency of human beings , when they feel their values are besieged , is to fight back using ...
Halaman 9
... protect them from harm, make their lives more prosperous, and guard their liberty. Under this new view of government, individual liberty was no longer a privilege wrested from an all-powerful monarch but an inalienable human right.3 The ...
... protect them from harm, make their lives more prosperous, and guard their liberty. Under this new view of government, individual liberty was no longer a privilege wrested from an all-powerful monarch but an inalienable human right.3 The ...
Halaman 10
... protect individual liberty from erosion. Threats to liberty could emanate just as easily from majoritarian passions and prejudices as elected representa- tives who ignored their constituents' desires. James Madison acknowledged the ...
... protect individual liberty from erosion. Threats to liberty could emanate just as easily from majoritarian passions and prejudices as elected representa- tives who ignored their constituents' desires. James Madison acknowledged the ...
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