States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

by Mark E. Brandon

In two canonical decisions of the 1920s--Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters--the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution's protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of "family values" have claimed that a timeless form of family--nuclear and biological--is crucial to the constitutional order. Mark Brandon's new book, however, challenges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700619232
• ISBN13: 9780700619238
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"