Blacks, Women and Mormons in the Early 20th-Century Rockies Toncray v. Budge – Idaho, 1908 (95 P. 26); Rose v. Sullivan – Montana, 1919 (185 P. 562); Darius v. Apostolos – Colorado, 1919 (190 P. 510); Jones v. Newlon – Colorado, 1927 (253 P. 386)
School prayer People ex rel. Vollmar v. Stanley – Colorado, 1927 (255 P. 610)
Eugenics Davis v. Walton – Utah, 1929 (276 P. 921); State v. Troutman – Idaho, 1931 (299 P. 668)
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“The right of the parents to select, within limits, what their children shall learn, is one of the liberties guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment … [but] I am reluctant to say that the Bible is good, and in the same breath declare that, if you do not agree with us, you may exercise an option to the contrary. It promotes disorder and confusion.” – Justice _, in Vollmar
“In the main the argument harks back to the ancient exterminations of the physical defectives by certain governments. It is feared this law is an opening wedge for such tyrannies. … The record before us and the recognized authorities on the scientific questions involved leave no doubt in our minds that heredity plays a controlling part in the blight of feeble-mindedness. If there be any natural right for natively mental defectives to beget children, that right must give way to the police power of the state in protecting the common welfare, so far as it can be protected, against this hereditary type of feeble-mindedness.” – Justice _, in Troutman |
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