Evolutionary Impulses In Law: Three Essays on How Laws Change

This book is composed of three different essays. Each essay discusses how laws change over time. Thefirst essay focuses on marriage in the United States. It starts with the Beckerian model and then developsthe relational contract model to analyze the rolereligion plays in marriage. The second essay focuseson abortion law and how it had changed over thecenturies in the United States. A model of socialentrepreneurship is developed and incorporated withother theories from Public Choice. From this, onecan understand social movements from the left and theright and how they work differently. The final essayis on the Indian constitution and how it has evolvedin the area of civil and economic rights. Two PublicChoice models (Congleton Model and Tsebelis Model)are used to analyze the evolution of the Indianconstitution. In India, civil rights has beenstrengthened but economic rights has been weakened.