Separating Marriage and State

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Jesse Walker | November 27, 2007

The historian Stephanie Coontz offers a brief but potent description of how and why the state seized control of marital contracts.

Elsewhere in Reason: Julian Sanchez reviews Coontz's most recent book. I observe the ongoing evolution of marriage. And Jonathan Rauch makes the Hayekian case for gay unions.

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