Certain practices common in the early United States make it easy for historians to underestimate the extent of American women's paid labor. Under the legal principle called coverture, married women had no legally recognized economic existence apart from their husbands and could not receive wages for...
This anomaly was the result of the long-standing common law principle of coverture, a legal fiction providing that married women had no legal identity separate from their husbands. At the very heart of the fiction was the inescapable contradiction that in satisfying society's expectation that she...
Was the Declaration of Independence justified, or was it treason? Are the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence the same thing? Did the Declaration of Independence reflect the principle of individual rights? Was slavery mentioned in the Declaration of Independence? Does the Declaration of ...
tudes. Questions about the legal treatment of gays and lesbians soon reached the courts, where they could be discussed in the formal dis- course of the law. In 2003, this Court overruled its 1986 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U. S. 186, which upheld a Georgia law that ...
At the time of the American Revolution, women had few rights. Although single women were allowed to own property, married women were not. When women married, their separate legal identities were erased under the legal principle ofcoverture. Not only did women adopt their husbands’ names, but ...
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” This was the common law principle of coverture. Anyone arguing coverture today would be laughed out of court, evidence of how the common law easily gives way to new statutes and new ideas. Citizenship based on the status of the parents was another idea that seemed to be gaining headway....
”[1] The Northern clerical defenders of slavery perceived the spread of abolitionist preaching as a threat, not just to slavery“but also to the very principle of social and ecclesiastical hierarchy.”[2]Alistair McGrath asks a very important question for modern Christians who might be tempted ...
Advocating an implicitly Millian position, Alice Paul believed that theLochnerCourt's upgrading of liberty of contract to the status of a constitutional right was a certain path toward expanding married women's legal capacity to contract, which was still curtailed in many states by coverture. If ...
principle when it’s convenient for him or her to do so and when he or she doesn’t offer a way to distinguish the two instances, that leads me to suspect their argument. If that person has a habit of doing this, I am inclined to be suspicious or hypercritical of most of what they...