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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Page xix
... lines of Shrew with the beginning of the derivative makes it clear that Shakespeare neither had nor could have had any hand in its composition. Here,first,is the opening of Shakespeare's Shrew: Sly I'll pheeze you,in faith. Hostess A ...
... lines of Shrew with the beginning of the derivative makes it clear that Shakespeare neither had nor could have had any hand in its composition. Here,first,is the opening of Shakespeare's Shrew: Sly I'll pheeze you,in faith. Hostess A ...
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... line reappearance, later in the first act, Shrew's Introduction runs to an impressive total of 274 lines.The intensely dramatic 155-line first scene in Hamlet is barely half this long;the first scene of Othello runs to 185 lines; and ...
... line reappearance, later in the first act, Shrew's Introduction runs to an impressive total of 274 lines.The intensely dramatic 155-line first scene in Hamlet is barely half this long;the first scene of Othello runs to 185 lines; and ...
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... lines of whatever were the age's comic expectations and proclivities. . . .When in more sophisticated circumstances Ben Jonson and his friends established rules for their meeting in the Apollo chamber of the Old Devil Tavern, they seem ...
... lines of whatever were the age's comic expectations and proclivities. . . .When in more sophisticated circumstances Ben Jonson and his friends established rules for their meeting in the Apollo chamber of the Old Devil Tavern, they seem ...
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