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Fully Vaccination Case Study

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Amendment included the right to refuse compulsory vaccination (Mariner, Annas, & Glantz, 2005). Justice John Marshall Harlan questioned the court “Is this statute . . . inconsistent with the liberty which the Constitution of the United States secures to every person against deprivation by the State?” Justice Harlan went on to confirm that while the Constitution, specifically the 14th amendment, protected the individual liberty that this liberty is not an “absolute right” that created a situation where each person was “at all times and in all circumstance wholly free from restraint”. (Mariner, Annas, & Glantz, 2005). This created case law that stated that while the citizen was generally free from the involvement of the state within their

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