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The Tea Party : three principles
\"In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three \"core principles\" of American constitutional law that bind the decentralized, wide-ranging movement: limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism. These three principles, Foley explains, both define the Tea Party movement and predict its effect on the American political landscape. Foley explains the three principles' significance to the American founding and constitutional structure. She then connects the principles to current issues as health care reform, illegal immigration, the war on terror, and internationalism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Tea Party
In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three 'core principles' of American constitutional law that bind the decentralized, wide-ranging movement: limited government, unapologetic US sovereignty and constitutional originalism. These three principles, Foley explains, both define the Tea Party movement and predict its effect on the American political landscape. Foley explains the three principles' significance to the American founding and constitutional structure. She then connects the principles to current issues such as health care reform, illegal immigration, the war on terror, and internationalism.
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Liberty for All
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.
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The Law of Life and Death
Are you alive? Most people believe that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But Foley shows that “not being dead\" isn’t necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. The need for more organ transplants and conservation of health care resources is exerting pressure to expand the legal definition of death.
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Statutory and Common Law Life
It is a miracle that happens hundreds of thousands of times each day. Sperm meets egg. Their chromosomes begin intertwining, forming a unique genetic combination. The mysterious, awe-inspiring process of rapid cell division begins. Within a short time, if all conditions are right, the growing embryo will find a cozy spot on the uterine wall and attach, securing a life-giving bond with its mother. Somewhere between sixteen and twenty-one weeks after conception, the mother will begin to feel kicking or moving inside the womb. After about twenty-one weeks, the fetus may be able to alive independently of its mother, though
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Unbeing Dead Isn’t Being Alive
Stepping back and looking at the lawin toto,there are two distinct political ideologies at play, both of which have managed to capture legal recognition in various ways. On the one hand, there is a “right-to-life” movement, espousing the belief that life begins at conception and urging legal reforms that reflect this belief. On the other hand, there is a “right-to-die” movement, espousing the belief that quality of life, not mere biological itself, should be the focus of the law. Neither one of these ideologies has dominated, yet their fingerprints are discernible within discrete areas.
The law has agreed
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