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States of union : family and change in the American constitutional order /

"In two canonical decisions in 1920s, the Supreme Court announced that family was an institution possessing a constitutional status and that certain relations within family were constitutionally protected. Since then, "family values" has become a staple of American civic life as the p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brandon, Mark E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2013.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
Constitutional thinking.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family and civilization
  • The English ancestry of the American law of family
  • Family at the birth of the American order
  • Slaves, the slaveholding household, and the racial family
  • Home on the range : families in American continental settlement
  • Tribal families and the American nation
  • Uncommon families, part 1 : American communism
  • Uncommon families, part 2 : polygamy
  • Modern times family in the nation's courts.