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Brewer Holly <1964-> |
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By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority / / Holly Brewer |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : 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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©2005 |
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0-8078-3912-4 |
1-4696-0112-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (407 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Soggetti |
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Minors - England - History |
Children - Legal status, laws, etc - England - History |
Capacity and disability - England - History |
Children - England - Social conditions |
Children - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History |
Capacity and disability - United States - History |
Social contract - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 Law6: Understanding Intent: Children and the Reform of Guilt and Punishment; 7: The Emergence of Parental Custody: Children and |
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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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