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008			130509s2013 ksu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780700619764
020			_z9780700619238 (hardback : alk. paper)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aKF505 _b.B664 2013
082	0	0	_a346.7301 _223
100	1		_aBrandon, Mark E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStates of union _h[electronic resource] : _bfamily and change in the American constitutional order / _cMark E. Brandon.
260			_aLawrence, Kansas : _bUniversity Press of Kansas, _c[2013]. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 335 pages )
490	0		_aConstitutional thinking
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFamily 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.
520			_a"In two canonical decisions in 1920s, the Supreme Court announced that family was an institution possessing a constitutional status and that certain relations within family were constitutionally protected. Since then, "family values" has become a staple of American civic life as the polity roils over issues like the regulation of procreation, the roles of women, the education of children, divorce, domestic economy, sex, sexuality, and the meanings of marriage. Brandon is the first to explain how family came to be "in" the Constitution, what it has meant for family to be constitutionally significant, and what the implications of that significance have been (and continue to be) for the constitutional order and for families"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"In two canonical decisions of the 1920s--Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters--the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution's protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of "family values" have claimed that a timeless form of family--nuclear and biological--is crucial to the constitutional order. Mark Brandon's new book, however, challenges these claims. Brandon addresses debates currently roiling America--the regulation of procreation, the roles of women, the education of children, divorce, sexuality, and the meanings of marriage. He also takes on claims of scholars who attribute modern change in family law to mid-twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions upholding privacy. He shows that the "constitutional" law of family has much deeper roots. Offering glimpses into American households across time, Brandon looks at the legal and constitutional norms that have aimed to govern those households and the lives within them. He argues that, well prior to the 1960s, the nature of families in America had been continually changing--especially during western expansion, but also in the founding era. He further contends that the monogamous nuclear family was codified only at the end of the nineteenth century as a response to Mormon polygamy, communal experiments, and Native American households. Brandon discusses the evolution of familial jurisprudence as applied to disputes over property, inheritance, work, reproduction, the status of women and children, the regulation of sex, and the legal limits to and constitutional significance of marriage. He shows how the Supreme Court's famous decisions in the latter part of the twentieth century were largely responses to societal change, and he cites a wide range of cases that offer fresh insight into the ways the legal system responded to various forms of family life. More than a historical overview, the book also considers the development of same-sex marriage as a political and legal issue in our time. States of Union is a groundbreaking volume that explains how family came to be "in" the Constitution, what it has meant for family to be constitutionally significant, and what the implications of that significance are for the constitutional order and for families"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLAW / Constitutional. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
650		0	_aDomestic relations _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780700619764/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34492 _d34492