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- ↑ "Illegal to Deny the Bible".
- ↑ SUTTON, JOHN R. "Stubborn Children: Law and the Socialization of Deviance in the Puritan Colonies." Family Law Quarterly 15, no. 1 (1981): 31-64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25739276.
- 1 2 "New England States Punished "Stubborn Children" Under Laws Based On Deuteronomy, In Disregard Of Talmudic Commentary Abrogating Any Such Punishment".
- ↑ 1. M. Farrand, The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts (1648) at 6 (1929); N. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628-1686 101 (1854).
- ↑ "King James Bible".
- ↑ "A stubborn child".