By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority /
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| Язык: | английский |
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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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| Серии: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Оглавление:
- 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.