A vindication of the power of states to prohibit clandestine marriages under the pain of absolute nullity : particularly the marriages of minors, made without the consent of their parents or guardians, in answer to the Rev. Dr. Stebbing Dissertation on the power of states to deny civil protection to the marriages of minors, etc. : with occasional remarks on an enquiry into the force and operation of the annulling clauses in a late act for the better preventing of clandestine marriages with respect to conscience, in a letter to the doctor /