States of union : family and change in the American constitutional order / Mark E. Brandon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brandon, Mark E. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Series:Constitutional thinking.
Subjects:
Domestic relations > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Physical Description:xi, 335 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Family and civilization
  • The English ancestry of the American law of family
  • Family at the birth of the American order
  • Slaves, the slaveholding household, and the racial family
  • Home on the range : families in American continental settlement
  • Tribal families and the American nation
  • Uncommon families, part 1 : American communism
  • Uncommon families, part 2 : polygamy
  • Modern times family in the nation's courts.