Transcription of JACOBSON v. MASSACHUSETTS.
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JACOBSON v. massachusetts . 11197 U. S. v. TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF 70. Argued December 6, February 20, United States does not derive any of its substantive powers from thePreamble of the Constitution. It cannot exert any power to secure thedeclared objects of the Constitution unless, apart from the Preamblesuch power be found in, or can properly be implied from, some expressdelegation-in the the spirit of the Constitution is to be respected not less than itsletter, the spirit is to be collected chiefly from its the exclusion of evidence in the state court in a case involving theconstitutionality of a state statute may not strictly present a Federalquestion, this court may consider the rejection of such evidence uponthe ground of incompetency or immateriality under the statute asshowing its scope and meaning in the opinion of the state police) power of a State embraces such reasonable regulations relatingto matters completely within its territory, and not affecting the peopleof -other States, established directly by legislative enactment, as willprotect the public health and a local regulation, even if based on the acknowledged police powerof a State, must always yield in case of conflict with the exercise by theGeneral Government of any power it possesses under the Constitution,the mode or manner of exercising its police power is wholly wit
any of the rights of such person under the Fourteenth Amendment. THIS case involves the validity, under the Constitution of the United States, of certain provisions in the statutes of Massachusetts relating to vaccination. The Revised Laws of that Commonwealth, c. 75, § 137, provide that "the board of health of a city or town if, in its ...
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