Coming Out of Cancer by Victoria A. Brownworth

Thus “self-evident” - coming from the people, not “Sacred,” coming via a kingly conduit to God.)įranklin was also a statesman, having been Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly and President of Pennsylvania - a position equivalent to governor, today.įranklin was also known as the great communicator among the major players in the colonial era. (For example, Jefferson had originally written “we hold these truths to be Sacred,” but Franklin altered that to read “self-evident” because, he argued with Jefferson, the new democracy could not be predicated on the old divine right of kings, like the monarchy they had just won freedom from. It was Franklin who edited the Declaration of Independence as Jefferson wrote it, making significant changes, which altered the course of history.

Historian Walter Isaacson, author of the definitive biography of Franklin, described him as “the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.” An intellectual powerhouse credited with an extraordinary number of inventions and writings, he also was one of the three most pivotal players in the solidifying of the new colonial government, along with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. There is no more fascinating character among the Founding Fathers than Benjamin Franklin. Supplements (CBC, 1993, 1994) (chapters on medicine, family law, public health law, health law & tort law).Benjamin Franklin: Writer, inventor, statesman and friend to gaysĮxclusively for Outword Magazine and the National Gay History Project Health Insurance: Getting Coverage for the Treatment You Need, in Coming Out of Cancer (Victoria Brownworth ed., 2000). Health Care, in Rights of Persons With Disabilities (3d ed. Judicial Enforcement of Covenants Not to Compete Between Physicians: Protecting Doctors’ Interests at Patients’ Expense, 45 Rutgers L. Toward a First Amendment Theory of Doctor-Patient Discourse and the Right to Receive Unbiased Medical Advice, 74 B.U.

When the Hazard Is Human: Irrationality, Inequity, and Unintended Consequences in Federal Regulation of Contagion, 75 Wash. Lost in a Doctrinal Wasteland: The Exceptionalism of Doctor-Patient Speech Within the Rehnquist Court’s First Amendment Jurisprudence, 8 Health Matrix 153 (1998). Ill/Legal: The Meaning and Function of the Category of Disability in Antidiscrimination Law, 18 Yale L. Using Distance Learning to Enhance Cross-Listed, Interdisciplinary Law School Courses, 29 Rutgers Computer & Tech.

Coming Out of Cancer by Victoria A. Brownworth