Sex and the constitution book

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Ironically, it was published as the U. Senate considered the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge, to the Supreme Court to fill the vacated seat formerly held by Antonia Scalia. Stone is the Edward H. He is a noted First Amendment scholar and is author of a half-dozen learned works on the law and American life. Stone offers a useful introductory pre-history of Western legal theory concerning sex, religious belief, and lawmaking from the days of the Israelites and Greeks to modern England. The introduction sets the stage for the four centuries of American legal and social history that follows.

Geoffrey R. Stone View Bio Hardcover: W. Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity and no laws against abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. Edgar Hoover, Phyllis Schlafly, and Justice Anthony Kennedy—enlivens this landmark work, which dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the paradoxes and cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding. In a jacket blurb, Lawrence Tribe called Sex and the Constitution a 'masterpiece