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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Saturday, February 28, 2004

"Most enduring institution..." -- NOT

SFGate is running a Wall Street Journal piece titled "Couples in U.S. used to marry early and informally".
[T]he state of marriage in early America: no license, witness, ceremony, often not even a magistrate. Some couples wanted a blessing from church or state, but common-law marriages, men and women behaving as spouses without a formal contract, were both legal and respectable. An 1843 Indiana marriage law stated, "No particular form of ceremony shall be necessary, except that the parties shall declare ... that they take each other as husband and wife."
Hardly as "enduring" as say, slavery or hunger or abject poverty. Maybe those should be protected too.
|| Andrew, 10:50 AM || ||

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