Sex and the Constitution
ALI member Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, has authored Sex and The Constitution, set to be released this March.
From the publisher:
There has never been a book like Sex and the Constitution, a one-volume history that chapter after chapter overturns popular shibboleths, while dramatically narrating the epic story of how sex came to be legislated in America.
Beginning his volume in the ancient and medieval worlds, Geoffrey R. Stone demonstrates how the Founding Fathers, deeply influenced by their philosophical forebears, saw traditional Christianity as an impediment to the pursuit of happiness and to the quest for human progress. Acutely aware of the need to separate politics from the divisive forces of religion, the Founding Fathers crafted a constitution that expressed the fundamental values of the Enlightenment.
Professor Stone is an Adviser on the Principles of the Law, Policing project. He also serves on the Members Consultative Group for the Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus: Procedural Frameworks and Analysis. He is the author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism and War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present.
