Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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In your 1619 project essay, that Dred Scott is kind of the the root of the endemic racism that we see today.
And I'm curious, could you say more about what that legacy means for folks?
Well, it's used today uh in passing as a way of trying to say, well, we the people, we you know, we talk about a more perfect union for rhetorical purposes, but it died a pretty quick death, actually.
Um, and that's because of a case from nineteen oh five called Jacobson versus Massachusetts.
Um so why don't I say a little bit about that, right?
Um the case of Jacobson versus Massachusetts.
Involved a legal challenge to a Massachusetts law that permitted
the use of mandatory vaccinations.
And Jacobson, Henry Jacobson was a fellow who said, I don't want that to happen to me.
There had been a smallpox outbreak um in 1901 and the city of Cambridge required everyone to get vaccinations against smallpox.
You can think of Henry Jacobson as kind of the original anti-vaxxer, right?
He says, Well, how do you know these are effective?
They might kill people.
Um, there's no reason to show that they're, you know, effective in combating smallpox.
So, you know, he lost in the state courts, but his case eventually goes up to the United States Supreme Court.
And one of his arguments was that.
such a state law violated his rights under the preamble.
And in nineteen oh five the Supreme Court decided, in a very short paragraph, No, you don't have rights under the preamble.
Nobody has rights.
There are no powers or rights that arise from the preamble.
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