CRM/LAW C113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Miscegenation, Loving V. Virginia, Equal Protection Clause
14 Nov 2018
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Used to encourage marriage for people who had property to pass on to their children. Government changes made it more likely for people to get married because of love and not because of financial and other reasons. Contract between the couple and state so the state has a say: protect the vulnerable (children and adults that may become unstable if they don"t have state protection. Ex: cover his or her debts: enforce sexual morality (sex should be anonymous, heterosexual, and within marriage and note outside of legally formal union) Q: virginia"s anti miscegenation statue in loving . Milder jeter and richard loving were virginia residents who left the state to get married because there was anti miscegenation law in virginia not allowing interracial marriage and it was punishable by 1 to 5 years imprisonment. White persons = no trace whatsoever of any blood other than caucasian ** Colored persons = any ascertainable negro blood **
