Every Man's Home a Castle : Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism

medical exams joined forces to form the National League for Medical Freedom. Deciding a case brought by conservative Catholic lawyers, the Supreme Court declared parental rights a fundamental liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. And the Sentinels of the Republic, a conservative citizens lobby, mobilized a campaign to defeat the proposed federal Child Labor Amendment, bringing together pro-family and free-market politics with far-reaching consequences.Exploring the emergence of parental rights as an antistatist ideology through legal cases, legislative debates, and political movements, Bowes argues that the expansion of state power over children provoked such fierce opposition because the paternal rights of white menconsidered the rights-bearing individuals of American democracywere widely viewed as the mark and measure of their independence. [Publisher's text]