SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Civil Death, Nuclear Family, Missionary Position
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Federal law is only criminal law and tax law, family law, divorce law and labor laws are provincial law which are based on british common law. Under catholic rule, when you got married it was not a contract but a sacrament before god that couldn"t be broken, and most of europe was catholic; no accepted reason for divorce. Marriage wasn"t on the basis of love but for economic, descent and inheritance reasons, arranged between families, no expectation for monogamy. King henry 8th got married to catherine of aragon (princess of spain) in 1492 who was his brother"s ex wife after he died, marriage of economic and power growth. Spain (top military power) and portugal are the 2 main powers, spanish and portuguese inquisitions for persecution of muslims and jews and converting to catholicism, confiscated everything owned by them, becoming wealthy in order to fund colonization.
