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- Title
'By Ordinance of Nature': Marriage, Religion and the Modern English State.
- Authors
O'Connell, Lisa
- Abstract
The author considers natural law theory's role in the emergence of English concepts of marriage as a core institution of the modern nation-state. The establishment of a civil marriage code in England via the 1753 Marriage Act is discussed. The author argues that marriage became the state's instrument through an appropriation and reanimation of Anglicanism. Incongruent claims about the relationship between marriage and the sacred within the English nation-state are also considered.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; NATURAL law; NATION-state; CIVIL marriage; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Parergon, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2011.0101