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By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority /
"In By Birth or Consent, Holly Brewer explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the struggle over consent and status in England and America. The concept of meaningful consent, as it emerged through religious, political, and legal debates, challenged the older order of birth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Limiting and developing individual consent : children and Anglo-American revolutionary ideology
- ch. 1. Children, inherited power, and patriarchal ideology
- ch. 2. "Borne that princes subjects"? or "Christianity is no man's birth right"? : the religious debate over inherited right and consent to membership
- ch. 3. The dilemmas of government by consent and the problem of children : force, influence, implied consent, and inherited obligation
- ch. 4. Subjects of citizens? : inherited right versus reason, merit, and virtue
- ch. 5. "To stop the mouths" of children : reason and the common law
- ch. 6. Understanding intent : children and the reform of guilt and punishment
- ch. 7. The emergence of parental custody : children and consent to contracts for land, goods, and labor
- ch. 8. "Partly by persuasions and partly by threats" : parents, children, and consent to marriage
- The empire of the fathers : from birth to consent of whom?
- Appendix : Legal treatises used by Americans before the nineteenth century
- Index.