In the lead-up to a 1905 case, a man named Henning Jacobson refused to get vaccinated against smallpox during an outbreak of the disease and after the health board of Cambridge, Mass., ordered residents to get vaccinated. He was fined and charged under Massachusetts law. He pleaded “not guilty” and argued the mandate violated his constitutional rights. The Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, ruled that wasn’t the case.
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