TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brewer,Holly
AU  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
TI  - By birth or consent: children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority 
T2  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
SN  - 9781469601120
AV  - KD735 .B935 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Minors
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Children
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Capacity and disability
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - United States
KW  - Social contract
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; --; Limiting and developing individual consent : children and Anglo-American revolutionary ideology --; Children, inherited power, and patriarchal ideology --; "Borne that princes subjects"? or "Christianity is no man's birth right"? : the religious debate over inherited right and consent to membership --; The dilemmas of government by consent and the problem of children : force, influence, implied consent, and inherited obligation --; Subjects of citizens? : inherited right versus reason, merit, and virtue --; "To stop the mouths" of children : reason and the common law --; Understanding intent : children and the reform of guilt and punishment --; The emergence of parental custody : children and consent to contracts for land, goods, and labor --; "Partly by persuasions and partly by threats" : parents, children, and consent to marriage --; The empire of the fathers : from birth to consent of whom?; 2; b
N2  - "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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