By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority / / Holly Brewer
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| Autore: |
Brewer Holly <1964->
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| Titolo: |
By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority / / Holly Brewer
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| Pubblicazione: | 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 |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (407 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 346.4201/35 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | By birth or consent |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-3912-4 |
| 1-4696-0112-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460608103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia