Marriage License & Race

One day I was visiting my aunt and cousin when her daughter, who was a freshman at the time, showed me her paper on race. As I was reading it, it made sense to me and suddenly I saw the bigger picture of marriage and the marriage license. I decided to capture the flavor of what she wrote and add more of my own knowledge about marriage, coverture, license, common law, and governmental restrictions. While one reads this, this is not about same sex marriage, while a little is mentioned but the main focus is on the old tradition of marriage. At one point I was thinking about self publication and or selling it on eBay, but lack of knowledge only allows me to put it here. Let us begin....