States of union : family and change in the American constitutional order /
"In two canonical decisions of the 1920s--Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters--the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution's protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of "family valu...
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2013].
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| Series: | Constitutional thinking
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Table of Contents:
- Family and civilization
- The English ancestry of the American law of family
- Family at the birth of the American order
- Slaves, the slaveholding household, and the racial family
- Home on the range : families in American continental settlement
- Tribal families and the American nation
- Uncommon families, part 1 : American communism
- Uncommon families, part 2 : polygamy
- Modern times family in the nation's courts