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Sex and the Constitution from America’s Origins to the 21st Century

Fueled by tensions among politics, religion, public opinion, and the courts, the epic story of how sex came to be legislated in America is as old as the nation itself, beginning with the Founding Fathers’ adamant commitment to the separation of church and state, spanning through to the late-19th and early-20th centuries with the development of laws regulating pornography, contraception, and abortion, and persisting through the postwar era with landmark Supreme Court cases, including Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, and Obergefell v. Hodges. Leading legal experts discuss how Constitutional interpretations of sex continue to cause controversy in American law and society today.











When: Sat., Oct. 21, 2017 at 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $48
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Fueled by tensions among politics, religion, public opinion, and the courts, the epic story of how sex came to be legislated in America is as old as the nation itself, beginning with the Founding Fathers’ adamant commitment to the separation of church and state, spanning through to the late-19th and early-20th centuries with the development of laws regulating pornography, contraception, and abortion, and persisting through the postwar era with landmark Supreme Court cases, including Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, and Obergefell v. Hodges. Leading legal experts discuss how Constitutional interpretations of sex continue to cause controversy in American law and society today.

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