Table of Contents

Introduction English Legal Scholars and Abortion in American Law English Common and Statutory Law and Sodomy in American Law Pornography: English Precedents in American Legal Thought The Criminal Insanity Defense: English and American Attorneys English Constitutional Documents and Punishment in American Law Epilogue Bibliography Index

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This 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.

About the Author

WAYNE C. BARTEE is Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of several books and articles in leading scholarly journals.

ALICE FLEETWOOD BARTEE is Professor of Political Science at Southwest Missouri State University. She is the author of Cases Lost, Cases Won and a contributor to The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court.

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?Litigating Morality is a powerful lesson concerning the intellectual poverty which afflicts American attorneys concerning some of the basic historic traditions of American jurisprudence.?-LEGAL PUBLISHING PREVIEW

"Litigating Morality is a powerful lesson concerning the intellectual poverty which afflicts American attorneys concerning some of the basic historic traditions of American jurisprudence."-LEGAL PUBLISHING PREVIEW