By Birth or Consent
Subtitle: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780807829509
Subjects: Social classes; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Family Law - Children; Eastern Europe - General; Minors; History; History - General History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; History: American; USA; Europe - Great Britain - General; Legal History; United States - Colonial Period; authority; absolutism; birth status; John Locke; Sir Matthew Hale; William Blackstone; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams; welfare; reformation; enlightenment; democratic political thought; political authority; United States - General; Children; Legal status, laws, etc.; Capacity and disability; England; Legal status, laws, etc; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
First sentence: After his election to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth City, Virginia, "Mr." Willis Wilson, eighteen years old, traveled to Jamestown to attend the session of April 1692.