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JACOBSON v. MASSACHUSETTS

No. 70.

197 U.S. 11 (1905)

25 S.Ct. 358

49 L.Ed. 643

JACOBSON v. MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1905.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Fred Williams, with whom Mr. James A. Halloran was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Frederick H. Nash, with whom Mr. Herbert Parker, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

We pass without extended discussion the suggestion that the particular section of the statute of Massachusetts now in question (§ 137, c. 75) is in derogation of rights secured by the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States. Although that Preamble indicates the general purposes for which the people ordained and established...

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