It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

o consider liberty in relation to the Constitution is to enter upon a subject of some ambiguity. Which Constitution are we to consider? The document has undergone dramatic shifts in its coverage and in its meaning over the course of our history. The unamended document ratified in 1787 had little explicit to say about individual liberties. Aside from provisions such as those barring states from ...

This article examines the theoretical problems of defining concept and content due process law. It reveals describes main stages its formation, development legal design. The most important guarantees liberty non-freedom person, which are reflected in international human rights treaties enshrined constitutions modern states, examined. purpose this study is to examine history, operation principle...

S ome Supreme Court rulings decide comparatively isolated legal issues, such as whether religious figures can be placed on the front lawn of a county courthouse without violating the First Amendment. Other Supreme Court rulings decide legal issues which, while certainly important in their own right, have significant and far-reaching legal and/or public policy consequences. Gobeille v. Liberty M...

relationship between income inequality and health has been independently discovered several times by people who appeared not to know of each other's work. 1,2 When I first published on the subject 3 I too was unaware of Rodgers' paper 4 until George Davey Smith pointed it out to me. Rodgers introduced an income distribution term into his regressions simply to take account of the well-known curv...

Building support for delegation services into an identity federation system enhances its flexibility and scalability. Users may need to delegate all (or a subset) of their access rights or privileges to other parties in the system. However, the Liberty Alliance, an industry consortium that aims to build open standard-based specifications for identity federation systems, does not include delegat...