TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foley,Elizabeth Price
TI  - Liberty for all: reclaiming individual privacy in a new era of public morality 
SN  - 9780300134995 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KF1262 .F65 2006eb
U1  - 342.7308/58 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Privacy, Right of
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Law and ethics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Droit à la vie privée
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Droit constitutionnel
KW  - Droit et morale
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - კონსტიტუცია და მორალი--
KW  - კონფიდენციალურობის უფლება
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-280) and index; Introduction: a nation of laws, not men -- The morality of American law -- Being sovereign : the harm principle -- Marriage -- Sex -- Reproduction -- Medical care -- Food, drugs, and alcohol
N2  - In 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 behaviour 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
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