Indecent Exposure: and the Court as Custodian of Morals

1. Introduction

2. Emergence of the Court as Custos Morum in English Common Law

3. Moral Jurisprudence and Biblical Hegemony in American Colonies

4. Fusion of Colonial Ideology and English Common-Law Tradition in Nineteenth-Century America

5. Taboo, Nonexistence, and Silence; the Structure of Modern Laws Forbidding Public Nakedness

6. Secular State or Christian Nation? Legal Enforcement of Christian Moral Principles

7. Order, Unity, Peace, and Liberty: Freedom of Expression and the Court as Custos Morum

8. To Maintain a Decent Society: The Government’s Power to Regulate Morals in Relation to the Individual’s Rights to Bodily Autonomy

9. Equal Protection and the Legal Topology of Bodies