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Old 11-23-2020, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer View Post
Forced vaccinations are not Constitutional.

People are free to determine their own level of risk.

U.S. Supreme Court

Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)Jacobson v. Massachusetts

No. 70

Argued December 6, 1904

Decided February 20, 1905

197 U.S. 11


The liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States does not import an absolute right in each person to be at all times, and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint, nor is it an element in such liberty that one person, or a minority of persons residing in any community and enjoying the benefits of its local government, should have power to dominate the majority when supported in their action by the authority of the State.

It is within the police power of a State to enact a compulsory vaccination law, and it is for the legislature, and not for the courts, to determine.

The highest court of Massachusetts not having held that the compulsory vaccination law of that State establishes the absolute rule that an adult must be vaccinated even if he is not a fit subject at the time or that vaccination would seriously injure his health or cause his death, this court holds that, as to an adult residing in the community, and a fit subject of vaccination, the statute is not invalid as in derogation of any of the rights of such person under the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Wisconsin State Supreme Court recently invalidated a shut down and mask order issued by the Governor, under his emergency powers provisions. The court stated that a governor's emergency powers cannot be unlimited and must be ratified by the legislature. In Jacobson v. Mass, it was a an act of the legislature, and the Supreme Court held it to be valid.
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