| Description |
xi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : limiting and developing individual consent : children and Anglo-American revolutionary ideology -- 1. Children, inherited power, and patriarchal ideology -- 2. "Borne that princes subjects"? or "Christianity is no man's birth right"? : the religious debate over inherited right and consent to membership -- 3. The dilemmas of government by consent and the problem of children : force, influence, implied consent, and inherited obligation -- 4. Subjects or citizens? : inherited right versus reason, merit, and virtue -- 5. "To stop the mouths" of children : reason and the common law -- 6. Understanding intent : children and the reform of guilt and punishment -- 7. The emergence of parental custody : children and consent to contracts for land, goods, and labor -- 8. "Partly by persuasions and partly by threats" : parents, children, and consent to marriage -- The empire of the fathers : from birth to the consent of whom? |
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App. Legal treatises used by Americans before the nineteenth century |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
2008 Order of the Coif Book Award, Order of the Coif ; 2006 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association ; 2006 Cromwell Prize, American Society for Legal History |
| Subject |
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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Minors -- England -- History.
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Capacity and disability -- England -- History.
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Children -- England -- Social conditions.
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Capacity and disability -- United States -- History.
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Social contract -- History.
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| Author |
Brewer, Holly, 1964- editor
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body
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| LC no. |
2004019071 |
| ISBN |
9780807829509 |
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0807829501 |
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9780807858325 |
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0807858323 |
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