...decision the opinion of the Supreme Court was delivered by Mr. Justice Holmes, in the course of which he said : *We have seen more than once that the public...are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' "It is now clear that any state in the American Union can, if it so desires, enact a eugenical sterilization...

...sustained. (Buck v. Bell, 274 US 208.) With his usual pungency Mr. Justice Holmes, speaking for the court, said: "We have seen more than once that the public...are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind." Equal Protection for Foreign Corporations. — If the laws of a state permit a domestic corporation...

...depriving individuals like Carrie Buck of any rights of motherhood. We have seen more than once that public welfare may call upon the best citizens for...those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.79 Oklahoma gave the welfare of society a different twist in the 1935 Habitual Criminal Act. It...

...dissent of Butler, to sustain a law providing for the involuntary sterilization of the feeble-minded: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting...who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Buck v. Bell, 274 US 200, 207 (1927). "0268 US 510...

...Bell, 274 US at 207: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting ... to let [offspring] starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those...are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind." Compare Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 US 535, 545 (1941) (Stone, CJ, concurring) ("the state may protect...

...-° It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring •ji SJ= for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those 'jgi 2 <o who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustained compulsory...

...not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. lt is better for all the world, if instead of waiting...who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind (Buck v. Bell, 274 US 200. 207; l972). That may seem like ancient history, but in l988 the US Congress's...

...their potential to reproduce. "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute the degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve...who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough."6 Between 1907 and 1932, twenty-seven states passed...

...It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can...who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough.6 This case capped three decades of the eugenics movement...

...It is better for all the world, if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can...who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . (ibid, at 207) Although the frameworks of legal and scientific knowledges have changed considerably...