In a guest post, Daniel Hill, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, makes a radical contribution to the debate about marriage law.

Princess Diana famously remarked that there were three people in her marriage to Prince Charles. Sometimes it feels that way for the rest of us—as though the state is intruding itself as a third party into our marriages. Indeed, the Supreme Court of North Carolina actually went so far as to say in 1945, ‘There are three parties to a marriage contract—the husband, the wife, and the State’. Continue reading →