Isbn: 9780300191455 - liberty for all: reclaiming individual privacy in a new era of public morality (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. An eye-opening investigation of the seemingly intractable tension between public morality and individual privacy in America today Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2012. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. pp. 304 402:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 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.…