Precisely the same remark is applicable to another leading improvement in modern legislation, namely, the decrease of religious persecution.
Such was the history of these events; and such likewise has been the history of all those improvements which are important enough to rank as epochs in the history of modern legislation.
The whole scope and tendency of modern legislation is, to restore things to that natural channel from which the ignorance of preceding legislation has driven them.
Modern legislation, though treating the fetus as a distinct being from the moment of its conception,[249] punishes criminal abortion less severely than infanticide.
The chief motive for retaining it in modern legislation, p.
But I venture to believe that the chief motive for retaining the punishment of death in modern legislation is the strong hold which the principle of talion has on the minds of legislators, as well as on the mind of the public.
Another important line of modern legislation consists in the subjecting of trades to a license for the purpose of examination (the tax feature has been discussed above).
The more general tendency of modern legislation, in the United States and elsewhere, is to allow entire freedom in this regard, except for a short period after the decree.
According to the prevailing opinion, however, as expressed in modern legislation, divorce should be allowed, with more or less freedom, under careful state regulation.
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