Episode 112: The Origins of the Social Contract, Part 1
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The Liberalization of Gay Rights
In 1779, in a bill for proportioning crimes and punishments, it's a Virginia law that he proposed that was struck down. Sautomy was a felony in every state until the last of those laws was repealed in South Carolina in 1873. "You have to conclude that in a regime such as ours, the only reason those good things happen politically is because people wanted them," she says.
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