Litigating Morality: American Legal Thought and Its English Roots

by Alice Fleetwood Bartee and Wayne C. Bartee

This volume is a thematic study in legal history that uses past and present landmark court cases to analyze the legal and historical development of moral regulatory policies in America and resulting debates. Using a critical variable approach, the book demonstrates how different elements of the legal process have historically influenced the litigation of various moral issues. Five moral policies are included: abortion, sodomy, pornography, criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275941272
• ISBN13: 9780275941277
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"