Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN-13:
9781631494284
ISBN-10:
1631494287
Edition:
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Author:
Geoffrey R. Stone
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Liveright
Format:
Paperback
704 pages
Category:
General
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Constitutional Law
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ISBN-13:
9781631494284
ISBN-10:
1631494287
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Geoffrey R. Stone
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Liveright
Format:
Paperback
704 pages
Category:
General
,
Constitutional Law
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Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century (ISBN-13: 9781631494284 and ISBN-10: 1631494287), written by authors
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
A “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University).
Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have legislated sexual behavior from America’s earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. This “fascinating and maddening” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) narrative shows how agitators, moralists, and, especially, the justices of the Supreme Court have navigated issues as divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity or abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters, including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, enliven this “commanding synthesis of scholarship” (Publishers Weekly) that dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding. 50 photographsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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