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  • I would rather see strong autonomous families (even so far as full pater familias powers to the head-of-household) and a total lack of parens patriae power on the part of the state than I would non-autonomous families and a strong parens patriae power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

  • I would rather see strong autonomous families (even so far as full pater familias powers to the head-of-household) and a total lack of parens patriae power on the part of the state than I would non-autonomous families and a strong parens patriae power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

  • I would rather see strong autonomous families even so far as full pater familias powers to the head-of-household and a total lack of parens patriae power on the part of the state than I would non-autonomous families and a strong parens patriae power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

  • I would rather see strong autonomous families even so far as full pater familias powers to the head-of-household and a total lack of parens patriae power on the part of the state than I would non-autonomous families and a strong parens patriae power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

  • Another possibility is to hold that non-autonomous sentient beings are also full self-owners, where the rights involved are understood as protecting their interests rather than their choices (see, for example, Vallentyne 2002).

    Libertarianism Vallentyne, Peter 2009

  • On such approaches, conflicts between earlier interests grounded in autonomy and later interests no longer so grounded become impossible, and the claim of authority of the earlier autonomous self over the current non-autonomous self loses its bite: the threshold of autonomy is so low as to cease to mark any contestable difference in authority.

    Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making Jaworska, Agnieszka 2009

  • This is an essential element of the claim that the patient's earlier autonomous self has authority over her current non-autonomous self.

    Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making Jaworska, Agnieszka 2009

  • And so I was basically a non-autonomous human being, because he was stronger than me.

    Failed Conservative Values: Elaine Charkowski on Patriarchy Family Values 2008

  • A non-autonomous air dominance UAV will get smoked if it can't fly and fight on its own, independent of human control.

    Air forces' futures 2008

  • I am the director of one of the handful of "non-autonomous" U.S. law school libraries, but we have always maintained a large degree of independence of the University Libraries: in addition to our reference and public services staff, we have our own acquisitions and technical services departments, all of which we -- and, I believe, our faculty -- find essential to maintaining the level of service that a good law school expects.

    Can Tulane Law Library Survive? 2006

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