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1 online resource (xi, 390 pages) : illustrations. |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. 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. 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 -- Empire of the fathers : from birth to consent of whom? |
Summary |
"In By Birth or Consent, Holly Brewer explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the struggle over consent and status in England and America. The concept of meaningful consent, as it emerged through religious, political, and legal debates, challenged the older order of birthright and became central to the development of democratic political theory." "As Brewer demonstrates, the legal status of children serves as a clear measure of the changing foundations of political and legal authority from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Age was central to this shift to a consent-based ideology, which specifically excluded children from the practice of consent." "Brewer's analysis reshapes the debate about the origins of modern political ideology and makes connections between Reformation religious debates, Enlightenment philosophy, and democratic political theory."--Jacket. |
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Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Minors -- England -- History.
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Minors. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Capacity and disability -- England -- History.
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Capacity and disability. |
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Children -- England -- Social conditions.
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Children. |
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Social conditions. |
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Capacity and disability -- United States -- History.
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Social contract -- History.
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Social contract. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Children. |
Added Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Brewer, Holly, 1964- By birth or consent. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004019071 (OCoLC)56324599 |
ISBN |
9781469601120 (electronic book) |
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1469601125 (electronic book) |
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0807829501 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807829509 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807856118 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807856116 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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