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- Title
The Meaning of the White Slave Act as Shown by Federal Decision.
- Abstract
The article presents information about the meaning of the white slave act as shown by the U.S. Supreme Court decision. It being stated in associate press dispatches that, lately, it has been held in a district court in Kansas, that the White Slave Act does not reach, for constitutional reasons, and presumptively was not intended to reach, mere personal immorality in one taking a female from one state to another for the gratification of his own lust, or to live with him in concubinage, it becomes useful to refer to Supreme Court decisions, construing this act, rendered February 4, 1913. In the Supreme Court's former comment in 76 C. L. J. 261, it spoke of these cases marking another step in national power, in which the intent of the defendant, rather than the quality of his act, showed the exercise of a national police power in behalf of the morality of the country as a whole. As the view above alluded to appears to the court to fail to admit such interpretations of those decisions, it will endeavor to show that it was upon this conception that they proceeded.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SLAVERY laws; FEDERAL court decisions; UNITED States. Supreme Court; POLICE power; IMMORALITY
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p738
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article