The Taming of the ShrewIn 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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... Elizabethan plays. But who today can make much sense of it? In this very fully annotated edition, I therefore present this passage, not in the bare form quoted above,but thoroughly supported by bottom-of-the-page notes: Biondello Why ...
... Elizabethan plays. But who today can make much sense of it? In this very fully annotated edition, I therefore present this passage, not in the bare form quoted above,but thoroughly supported by bottom-of-the-page notes: Biondello Why ...
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... Elizabethan pronunciation, follows the extremely simple form of my From Stress to Stress:An Autobiography of English Prosody (see “Further Reading,”near the end of this book).Syllables with metrical stress are capitalized; all other ...
... Elizabethan pronunciation, follows the extremely simple form of my From Stress to Stress:An Autobiography of English Prosody (see “Further Reading,”near the end of this book).Syllables with metrical stress are capitalized; all other ...
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... Elizabethan living, however magnificent, [was always] close to the “crude.” . . . [And] when one turns to a more detailed consideration of Elizabethan merriment, . . . a logical beginning would be to examine some aspects of comic wooing ...
... Elizabethan living, however magnificent, [was always] close to the “crude.” . . . [And] when one turns to a more detailed consideration of Elizabethan merriment, . . . a logical beginning would be to examine some aspects of comic wooing ...
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