[Download] "Beyond Romer and Lawrence: The Right to Privacy Comes out of the Closet." by Columbia Journal of Gender and Law " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Beyond Romer and Lawrence: The Right to Privacy Comes out of the Closet.
- Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 474 KB
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Great concepts like ... "liberty" were purposely left to gather meaning from experience. For they relate to the whole domain of social and economic fact, and the statesmen who founded this Nation knew too well that only a stagnant society remains unchanged. (1) Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact only serve to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. (2)