Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: xxxii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780871404695
- 0871404699
- 345.7302/53 23
- KF9325 .S76 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ancient world : the triumph of Augustine -- The power of revealed truth -- England, the enlightenment, and "the age of eros" -- From puritanism to the pursuit of happiness -- The world of the framers : a Christian nation? -- "The fundamental maxims of free government" -- The second great awakening -- "Tending to corrupt the public morals" : the meaning of obscenity -- Contraception and abortion : from the founding to the 1950s -- "Strange freaks of nature" -- Coming out -- Obscenity and the First Amendment : "a corrupting and debasing" influence -- The end of obscenity? -- Sex and speech in the Twenty-First century -- The constitution and the contraception -- The road to Roe -- Roe and beyond -- "The gay moment" -- A right to "retain their dignity" -- Same-sex marriage and the constitution.
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