Those restraints include those which have been part of the legal fabric since the Middle Ages, because they reflect the real makeup of society. I simply don’t-and the law doesn’t either—think that all legal relations can be reduced to contractal ones. The state has an interest in marriage because it has an interest in families and the laws are constructed with families in mind. Every individual is a member of a family, a fact attested by the fact that each person has a family name.
You're right. Neither one of you thinks.
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