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Litigating Morality: American Legal Thought and Its English Roots
A thematic study in legal history, using past and present landmark court cases to analyze the legal and historical development of moral regulatory policies in America and resulting debates. Five moral policies are covered: abortion, sodomy, pornography, criminal insanity and the death penalty.
| Author(s) | By Alice Fleetwood Bartee, Wayne C. Bartee. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 168 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 20 Feb 1992 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
A thematic study in legal history, using past and present landmark court cases to analyze the legal and historical development of moral regulatory policies in America and resulting debates. Five moral policies are covered: abortion, sodomy, pornography, criminal insanity and the death penalty.
Introduction English Legal Scholars and Abortion in American Law English Common and Statutory Law and Sodomy in American Law Pornography: English Precedents in American Legal Thought The Criminal Insanity Defense: English and American Attorneys Engli
WAYNE C. BARTEE is Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of several books and articles in leading scholarly journals. ALICE FLEETWOOD BARTEE is Professor of Political Science at Southwest Missouri State Unive
