CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--"LIBERTY" UNDER FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT--VALIDITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES STATUTES

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Nine states during the months immediately following the conclusion of the World War passed statutes in substantially the same language, forbidding the teaching of any modem language except English to children below the eighth grade in any school, private or public. Ohio also passed a law applying only to the German language. Teachers in Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio were convicted during 1920 and 1921 of violating these statutes and, after the supreme courts of the various states had held them valid, their cases were combined in an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Held, the statutes deprived appellants of their liberty without due process of law and were therefore void. Meyer v. Nebraska (Bartels v. Iowa, Pohl v. Ohio, Nebraska Evangelical Lutheran Synod v. McKelvie) (1923) 262 U. S. 390. 404.

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--"LIBERTY" UNDER FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT--VALIDITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES STATUTES, 22 Mich. L. Rev. 248 (1924).
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