By birth or consent : children, law, and the Anglo-American revolution in authority / Holly Brewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewer, Holly, 1964-

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minors--England--History.

Minors.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--England--History.

Children.

Capacity and disability--England--History.

Capacity and disability.

Children--England--Social conditions.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.

Capacity and disability--United States--History.

Social contract--History.

Social contract.

Physical Description:

xi, 390p. ; ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Summary:

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status.Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Limiting and Developing Individual Consent: Children and Anglo-American Revolutionary Ideology

1: Children, Inherited Power, and Patriarchal Ideology

2: ''Borne That Princes Subjects''? or ''Christianity Is No Man's Birth Right''?: The Religious Debate over Inherited Right and Consent to Membership

3: The Dilemmas of Government by Consent and the Problem of Children: Force, Influence, Implied Consent, and Inherited Obligation

4: Subjects or Citizens? Inherited Right versus Reason, Merit, and Virtue

5: ''To Stop the Mouths'' of Children: Reason and the Common Law

6: Understanding Intent: Children and the Reform of Guilt and Punishment

7: The Emergence of Parental Custody: Children and Consent to Contracts for Land, Goods, and Labor

8: ''Partly by Persuasions and Partly by Threats'': Parents, Children, and Consent to Marriage

The Empire of the Fathers: From Birth to the Consent of Whom?

Appendix: Legal Treatises Used by Americans before the Nineteenth Century

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate 1. Henry VI

Plate 2. Henry Darnall III.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-908718-8-6

0-8078-3912-4

1-4696-0112-5

OCLC:

935259585