Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.