RE: In Case Anyone Has Forgotten
June 8, 2016 at 2:15 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2016 at 2:19 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(June 5, 2016 at 9:47 pm)dyresand Wrote:Don't you know American history? They got real conservative and increased it to 7 years of age. Before they set that minimum limit there wasn't one. That's one reason the slavers wanted to own slaves.(June 5, 2016 at 12:18 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Maybe he's running to lower the age of consent to 7, like it was in 1895 Delaware?
Are... you... kidding me.....?
"In the United States in the 1890s, several states had an age of consent as low as 10. In 1895, the age of consent in Delaware was 7, according to an article in The New York Times."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform
You can see the original article in the NYTimes archives but you have to be subscriber to read it. Wiki has a scan of the original article.
This is a transcript used by Wikipedia = https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Y...ress_Meets
"He declared, further, that this society had urgent need to pronounce itself on the subject of the so-called age of consent laws. Girls are deemed capable of controlling property only at their majority, but States decide not so with their persons. In four States the age of consent is fixed at the shockingly low age of ten years, in four others at twelve, in three at thirteen, and so on, increasing, except in Delaware, where the original statute pertaining to the crime of rape is still unrepealed, fixing the age at seven years. These so-called age of consent statutes, which discriminate against girlhood and favor immoral men, are a disgrace to the several States of the Union."