Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

Name: Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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By Stone, Geoffrey R.

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 704
Publisher:: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Date:: 2018-07-03
ISBN / EAN:: 9781631494284
Weight:: 678 g
Dimensions:: 16/23/4 cm

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