ALL in the “Family:” Legal Problems of Communes
COMMENTS: ALL in the “Family:” Legal Problems of Communes
by Jonathan Shor
From the Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 7 (1972). 393-431.
It has been stated that the word commune raises images in the average, middle class American mind of “wild sex-dope-rock-filth orgies.” Partly as a result, communes face serious legal problems.
The purpose of this Comment is threefold: to offer a preliminary sketch of the problems faced by communes; then to advance three constitutional arguments to protect their rights; and finally, to suggest how these arguments may be used in several instances where state action now imposes legal disabilities upon communes. . . .
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