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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4946278" data-attributes="member: 56035">“We are not prepared to hold that a minority, residing or remaining in any city or town where smallpox is prevalent, and enjoying the general protection afforded by an organized local government, may thus defy the will of its constituted authorities, acting in good faith for all, under the legislative sanction of the state,” the justices wrote in 1905. “If such be the privilege of a minority, then a like privilege would belong to each individual of the community, and the spectacle would be presented of the welfare and safety of an entire population being subordinated to the notions of a single individual who chooses to remain a part of that population.”<img src="https://portside.org/sites/default/files/styles/facebook/public/field/image/IPV%20vaccination.jpg" alt="portside.org" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><h3><a href="https://portside.org/2021-07-30/vaccine-mandates-are-american-apple-pie" target="_blank"> Vaccine Mandates Are as American as Apple Pie </a></h3>If you support mandatory vaccination to fight Covid-19, you are in good company. The first vaccine mandate in American history came from none other than George Washington at the height of the American Revolution. America’s struggle for independence coincided with a major smallpox epidemic that...<img src="https://portside.org/themes/popeye/favicon.ico" alt="portside.org" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> portside.org</blockquote>

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