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History professor Nancy F. Cott, who has researched legal institutions and marriage in the United States and has testified during the Proposition 8 case in California, said she was skeptical of the consequences...
Also, The New York Times quoted a lawyer for the defense who believed Cott’s testimony to have backfired on the plaintiffs because, in his view, Cott did not explain why certain restrictions—such as polygamy—are legally permissible while others...
...Cott responded that she had indeed explained monogamy as the “American way of marrying,” which has always been viewed in direct opposition to polygamy, as evidenced by the federal government’s 19th century campaign against the Church of the Latter-Day Saints...
Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher—one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs who put Cott on the witness stand—wrote in an e-mailed statement that Cott was a strong addition to his case...
...Cott herself, who will teach a history course this spring entitled “Men and Women in Public and Private: The U.S. in the 20th Century,” is unconvinced that the historical argument should be enough to solve the legal issue at hand...