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Marriage on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
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"Marriage on Trial explores how the American legal system throughout history has approached the regulation of marital relationships in our society - the good and bad, effective and ineffective, com...
"Marriage on Trial explores how the American legal system throughout history has approached the regulation of marital relationships in our society - the good and bad, effective and ineffective, complex and simple." "Readers will understand the impact that the legal system has on marriage - in facilitating marriages and their dissolution and in influencing how we as citizens think about marriage."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Lee Walzer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2005]
- ©2005
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- xvii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781851096107, 1851096108, 9781851096152, 1851096159
- OCLC
- ocm56806266
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.
- Historical background -- The cases -- The future of marriage -- Documents: Loving v. Virginia (1967) ; Reynolds v. United States (1879) ; Cleveland v. United States (1946) ; Marvin v. Marvin (1976) ; No. 91. an Act relating to civil unions ; Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003) ; Opinions of the Justices to the Senate, SJC-09163 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (2004) ; Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. (Placed on calendar in Senate) -- Key people, laws, and concepts
- Historical background -- Cases -- The future of marriage -- Documents -- Key people, laws, and concepts