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)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780807858325
Subjects: Children; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Social history; History; History - General History; History: American; England; 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
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.