Format:
1 online resource (407 pages)
ISBN:
9781469601120
Series Statement:
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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? -- Appendix: Legal Treatises Used by Americans before the Nineteenth Century -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Plate 1. Henry VI -- Plate 2. Henry Darnall III.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807858325
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807858325
Language:
English
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